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Journal Article
Lyme disease on the wing in California
2015
Overview
New research suggests that birds could be involved in the spread of Lyme disease in the western US (PLoS ONE 2015; doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0118146). Lyme disease, caused by a form of the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, is spread to humans by infected ticks, and manifests initially as a reddish rash, fever, fatigue, chills, jointpain, and sometimes neurological complications, often months after initial infection. In northwestern California, where the research was performed, the culprit is the western black-legged tick (Ixodes pacificus). Although it infests many vertebrate species, the dusky-footed woodrat (Neotoma fuscipes) and the western gray squirrel (Sciurus griseus) are widely regarded as the primary reservoirs of the disease-carrying bacterium in the region. However, epidemiologists may now want to pay more attention to birds.
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Ecological Society of America
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