TABLE 4.
Genospecies infecting nymphal I. ricinus ticks that had attached naturally to common wall lizards (P. muralis), sand lizards (L. agilis), yellow-necked mice (A. flavicollis), wood mice (A. sylvaticus), or bank voles (C. glareolus)
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Infection of feeding nymphs
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| No. tested | % of Borrelia genospecies
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| Species | No. | B. lusitaniae | B. afzelii | B. garinii | B. valaisiana | B. miyamotoi | |
| P. muralis | 9 | 33 | 33.3 | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| L. agilis | 4 | 15 | 46.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| A. flavicollis | 5 | 11 | 0 | 72.7 | 9.1 | 0 | 0 |
| A. sylvaticus | 5 | 5 | 0 | 40.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| C. glareolus | 4 | 8 | 0 | 87.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |