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The indicated B. burgdorferi s.l. genospecies are acquired and transmitted between ticks and different vertebrate hosts including humans, small mammals, reptiles, and aves. Shown is the vertebrate hosts that have been demonstrated or suspected to carry respective species of the B. burgdorferi s.l. complex (Part of the figure is adapted from [9]).
