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Table 2 Assessing infectivity of BbKH500 via tick inoculation of C3H/HeJ mice

From: Assessment of decorin-binding protein A to the infectivity of Borrelia burgdorferi in the murine models of needle and tick infection

Strain

Ticks/mousea

Mouse infectivityb

Bb297

5

2/2

BbKH500

5

1/2

 

10

4/6

  1. a Varying number of ticks infected with BbKH500 were allowed to feed to repletion on naïve mice.
  2. b Infection rates were assessed at three weeks post-infestation by culturing BbKH500 from ear-punch biopsies