TABLE 3.
Recultivation of spirochetes from murine tissues
| Borrelia inoculated | No. of mice tested/no. of mice inoculateda | No. of tissue samples positive for spirochetes/no. of cultivated tissue samples |
Total mice with Borrelia-positive tissue samples |
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| Heart | Bladder | Joint | Ear | Back | No. of mice/total no. of mice examined | Rate (%) | ||
| B. burgdorferi sensu stricto N40 | 12/20 | 12/12 | 12/12 | 12/12 | 12/12 | 6/6 | 12/12 | 100.0 |
| B. garinii PBi | 18/21 | 0/18 | 0/18 | 0/18 | 0/18 | 0/15 | 0/18 | 0.0 |
| B. afzelii PKo | 20/23 | 9/20 | 6/20 | 1/20 | 5/20 | 0/17 | 14/20 | 70.0 |
| B. afzelii Slovakia | 20/21 | 6/20 | 7/20 | 4/20 | 0/20 | 2/14 | 11/20 | 55.0 |
| B. valaisiana VS116 | 0/6 | -b | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| B. valaisiana Rio6 | 8/8 | 0/8 | 0/8 | 0/8 | 0/8 | 0/8 | 0/8 | 0.0 |
| B. spielmanii A14S | 18/18 | 0/18 | 0/18 | 0/18 | 0/18 | 0/12 | 0/18 | 0.0 |
| B. lusitaniae | 24/24 | 0/24 | 0/24 | 0/24 | 0/24 | 0/18 | 0/24 | 0.0 |
a
That is, the number of mice tested in tissue culture/the number of mice inoculated with Borrelia.
b
-, not tested.