Role of Migratory Birds in Introduction and Range Expansion of Ixodes scapularis Ticks and of Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Canada

Volume 74, no. 6, p. 1780-1790, 2008. Page 1780, Abstract, lines 10 and 11: “0.4% (95% CI = 0.03 to 0.41)” should read “1.4% (95% CI = 0.3 to 4.1).”

Page 1783, column 2, line 5 from bottom: “263 were I. scapularis (208 nymphs and 55 larvae)” should read “261 were I. scapularis (208 nymphs and 53 larvae).”

Page 1785, Table 1: “Latitude” should read “Longitude.”

Page 1785, column 1, last line, and column 2, lines 1 and 2: “A further 375 Ixodes ticks collected from the birds were tested, comprising 302 I. dentatus ticks (31 nymphs and 271 larvae), . . .” should read “A further 374 Ixodes ticks collected from the birds were tested, comprising 301 I. dentatus ticks (31 nymphs and 270 larvae), . . . .”

Page 1785, column 2, line 4: “only one I. dentatus larva” should read “only one I. dentatus nymph.”