Anderson J F, Johnson R C, Magnarelli L A, Hyde F W, Myers J E
J Clin Microbiol. 1986 Jan;23(1):135-7. doi: 10.1128/jcm.23.1.135-137.1986.
Borrelia burgdorferi, the etiologic agent of Lyme disease, and Babesia microti, the causative agent of human babesiosis, were isolated from 71 and 57%, respectively, of 14 specimens of Peromyscus leucopus and Microtus pennsylvanicus collected from Prudence and Patience Islands, R.I. Both pathogens were isolated from five individual rodents. The presence of these two infectious organisms in the same mammal suggests that individual larval Ixodes dammini may ingest both pathogens and subsequently transmit them in the nymphal stage.
莱姆病的病原体伯氏疏螺旋体(Borrelia burgdorferi)和人类巴贝斯虫病的病原体微小巴贝斯虫(Babesia microti),分别从罗德岛普鲁登斯岛和佩兴斯岛采集的14份白足鼠(Peromyscus leucopus)和宾夕法尼亚田鼠(Microtus pennsylvanicus)标本中的71%和57%中分离出来。两种病原体都从五只个体啮齿动物中分离出来。这两种传染性生物体在同一哺乳动物体内的存在表明,单个达氏硬蜱(Ixodes dammini)幼虫可能摄取这两种病原体,并随后在若虫阶段传播它们。