Reservoir Competence of Vertebrate Hosts for Anaplasma phagocytophilum

摘要

Fourteen vertebrate species (10 mammals and 4 birds) were assessed for their ability to transmit Anaplasma phagocytophilum, the bacterium that causes human granu-locytic anaplasmosis, to uninfected feeding ixodid ticks. Small mammals were most likely to infect ticks but all spe-cies assessed were capable of transmitting the bacterium, in contrast to previous fi ndings