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Lyme in Oregon Ticks
Tick studies by Burkot
et al
in Oregon showed an infection rate within
Ixodes pacificus
adults ticks of 3%. When Californai had infection rates of 4% in adult ticks they had infection rates of 41% in nymphal ticks. No such data is available from Oregon regarding nymphal ticks.
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Burkot TR, Clover JR, Happ CM, DeBess E, Maupin GO. Isolation of Borrelia burgdorferi from Neotoma fuscipes, Peromyscus maniculatus, Peromyscus boylii and Ixodes pacificus in Oregon. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1999:60:453--7.
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