Vaccinating mouse reservoirs may reduce the prevalence of spirochetal infection due to the powerful vector and reservoir competence-modulating effects of anti-outer surface protein A (OspA) antibody.
We present the molecular identification of Apodemus agrarius (striped field mouse) as reservoir host of the Dobrava-Belgrade virus (DOBV) lineage DOBV-Aa in 3 federal states of Germany.
The American robin, an abundant and commonly tick-infested passerine, is as effective as mice in reservoir competence for this bacterium (17 ).
Other researchers have shown that white-footed mice remain reservoir competent for A. phagocytophilum for short periods of time (16 ) and that transmission of multiple organisms may have a different dynamic than that of single pathogens (17 ).
The deer mouse is a reservoir host for Sin Nombre hantavirus, which causes hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in the southwestern United States.
Presumably an exposure to a specific reservoir mouse or virus carrier, human behavior, and biologic factors are important.
Lineage I is usually associated with human disease (as are lineages II and III) and is linked to the common house mouse as its reservoir (14 ).
B. miyamotoi infects P. leucopus in the laboratory (2), but the role of this mouse as a reservoir was not known.
Detailed investigation of the 2001/02 and 2005/06 HFRS outbreaks have revealed the Kurkino genotype as the causative infectious agent and the striped field mouse as a reservoir species [ 8, 27, 79].
If these mice are the reservoir for this virus, the human population at risk for hantavirus infection by transmission from N. spinosus mice could be large, because the range of this species encompasses considerable portions of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
