Table 3.

Infections in mice of experiments 1 and 2

	Mouse	Treatment	Before challenges	After challenges
Experiment 1	1	T	-	-
	2	T	-	Bm (S)
	3	T	-	Bm (S)
	4	T	-	-
	5	T	-	-
	6	T	-	-
	7	T	-	-
	8	T	-	-
	9	T	-	-
	10	T	-	Ba (E)
	11	C	n.a.	-
	12	C	n.a.	-
Experiment 2	13	T	-	-
	14	T	-	-
	15	T	-	-
	16	T	-	Ba (E), Bm (S, E)
	17	T	-	-
	18	T	-	-
	19	T	-	-
	20	T	-	-
	21	T	-	-
	22	T	-	Bm (S)
	23	C	-	-
	24	C	-	-
	25	C	n.a.	-
	26	C	n.a.	-
	27	C	n.a.	-
	28	C	n.a.	-

T treatment mouse, challenged with larvae, C control mouse, n.a. not analysed, S Spleen, E Ear biopsy, Ba Borrelia afzelii, Bm Borrelia miyamotoi

- = uninfected