Wildlife Borrelia infection in Atlantic Canada:
Assessing the prevalence of Borrelia in wildlife hosts
Christopher Zinck
Mount Allison University
Lyme Research Network
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Important findings:
- Reservoir species are abundant
- There are more Borrelia out there than B. burgdorferi (testing will miss all of them)
- Different Borrelia species show different tissue tropisms (cells and tissues of a host which support growth of bacteria) in the body – B. miyamotoi is much more widely dispersed in the body in wild mice than Bb