ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2011
Introduced Siberian chipmunks (Tamias sibiricus barberi) harbor more-diverse Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato genospecies than native bank voles (Myodes glareolus).
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- Prevalence of Lyme Disease and Relapsing FeverPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in ticks and small mammals from different habitats.Parasites & vectors · 2022Article
- Host-parasite interactions of rodent hosts and ectoparasite communities from different habitats in Germany.Parasites & vectors · 2021Article
- Genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato detected in 16 mammal species and questing ticks from northern Europe.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Arthropods and associated pathogens from native and introduced rodents in Northeastern Italy.Parasitology research · 2018Article
- A cross-sectional study of small mammals for tick-borne pathogen infection in northern Mongolia.Infection ecology & epidemiology · 2018Article
- Effects of conservation management of landscapes and vertebrate communities on Lyme borreliosis risk in the United Kingdom.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- The enzootic life-cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu lato) and tick-borne rickettsiae: an epidemiological study on wild-living small mammals and their ticks from Saxony, Germany.Parasites & vectors · 2017Article
- Infection of Ixodes ricinus by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in peri-urban forests of France.PloS one · 2017Article
- Environmental factors influencing tick densities over seven years in a French suburban forest.Parasites & vectors · 2016Article
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- An Invasive Mammal (the Gray Squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis) Commonly Hosts Diverse and Atypical Genotypes of the Zoonotic Pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2015Article
- Seasonal variation in infestations by ixodids on Siberian chipmunks: effects of host age, sex, and birth season.Parasitology research · 2015Article
- The lyme disease pathogen has no effect on the survival of its rodent reservoir host.PloS one · 2015Article
- Seasonal prevalence of Lyme disease spirochetes in a heterothermic mammal, the edible dormouse (Glis glis).Applied and environmental microbiology · 2014Article
- Ixodes ricinus and Its Transmitted Pathogens in Urban and Peri-Urban Areas in Europe: New Hazards and Relevance for Public Health.Frontiers in public health · 2014Review
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Abstract
Little attention has been given in scientific literature to how introduced species may act as a new host for native infectious agents and modify the epidemiology of a disease. In this study, we investigated whether an introduced species, the Siberian chipmunk (Tamias sibiricus barberi), was a potentially new reservoir host for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the causative agent of Lyme disease. First, we ascertained whether chipmunks were infected by all of the B. burgdorferi sensu lato genospecies associated with rodents and available in their source of infection, questing nymphs. Second, we determined whether the prevalence and diversity of B. burgdorferi sensu lato in chipmunks were similar to those of a native reservoir rodent, the bank vole (Myodes glareolus). Our research took place between 2006 and 2008 in a suburban French forest, where we trapped 335 chipmunks and 671 voles and collected 743 nymphs of ticks that were questing for hosts by dragging on the vegetation. We assayed for B. burgdorferi sensu lato with ear biopsy specimens taken from the rodents and in nymphs using PCR and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP). Chipmunks were infected by the three Borrelia genospecies that were present in questing nymphs and that infect rodents (B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, B. afzelii, and B. garinii). In contrast, voles hosted only B. afzelii. Furthermore, chipmunks were more infected (35%) than voles (16%). These results may be explained by the higher exposure of chipmunks, because they harbor more ticks, or by their higher tolerance of other B. burgdorferi sensu lato genospecies than of B. afzelii. If chipmunks are competent reservoir hosts for B. burgdorferi sensu lato, they may spill back B. burgdorferi sensu lato to native communities and eventually may increase the risk of Lyme disease transmission to humans.
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