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Infection Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi in White-Footed Mice (Peromyscus leucopus) Across the Northwest of Michigan's Lower Peninsula

Brown, Keeley Kyra
http://orcid.org/0009-0001-2927-7623
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1714082893180418

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2024, Master of Science, Miami University, Biology.
Lyme disease, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi , is transmitted to humans through ticks, and it has become an increasing problem in the Midwest. In recent years, cases have been expanding from a hotspot in Wisconsin to Michigan's Lower Peninsula (LP) along the coastline of Lake Michigan. The expansion of cases coincides with increasing populations of deer tick, Ixodes scapularis , and of the white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus , which serves as the primary reservoir host for the bacterium. A study from 2010 testing the infection prevalence in both deer ticks and white-footed mice found no infections in either species in most of the northern LP. For this study, mice were trapped along a transect from the edge of the known range of infected mice northeastwards toward the tip of the LP. Infected mice and ticks were found more than 100km beyond the previous limit but were not found along the eastern part of the transect. The proportion of P. leucopus carrying ticks was correlated with higher infection prevalence in both ticks and mice.
Susan Hoffman (Advisor)
Brian Keane (Committee Member)
Tereza Jezkova (Committee Member)
51 p.
Biology
Lyme disease; Peromyscus leucopus; white-footed mice; Ixodes scapularis; deer ticks; expansion; infection prevalence; Michigan

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  • Brown, K. K. (2024). Infection Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi in White-Footed Mice (Peromyscus leucopus) Across the Northwest of Michigan's Lower Peninsula [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1714082893180418

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Brown, Keeley. Infection Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi in White-Footed Mice (Peromyscus leucopus) Across the Northwest of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. 2024. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1714082893180418.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Brown, Keeley. "Infection Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi in White-Footed Mice (Peromyscus leucopus) Across the Northwest of Michigan's Lower Peninsula." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1714082893180418

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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