TABLE 2.

Genospecies diversity of Lyme disease spirochetes in jirds that served as hosts to nymphal I. ricinus ticks sampled while questing on vegetation on Madeira Island

Sample source and jird no.	No. of questing nymphs engorged	Detection of Borrelia genospeciesb	No. sequences indicating the following genospecies:
			B. afzelii	B. burg- dorferi	B. gariniic	Other
Xenodiagnostic ticka
1	73	0
2	80	0
3	61	+	1	0	0	0
4	48	0
5	62	+	0	0	1	0
6	54	0
7	144	+	1	0	0	0
8	96	+	0	0	1	0
9	97	+	1	0	0	0
Host tissue
10	86	+	0	1	0	0
11	86	0
12	107	0
Total
12	994		3	1	2	0

^aNymphal ticks had engorged as xenodiagnostic larvae on jirds. 

^bPCR analysis was performed for all cohorts of xenodiagnostic ticks in which spirochetes had been detected by means of dark-field microscopy. 

^cSerotype 6.