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Table 1 Mouse-to-tick transmission was more successful for the primary strain than the secondary strain

From: First arrived takes all: inhibitory priority effects dominate competition between co-infecting Borrelia burgdorferi strains

 

D46

D65

Strain

Primary

Secondary

Primary

Secondary

A

100% (21)

0%

90% (9)

10% (1)

K

94% (46)

6% (3)

94% (32)

6% (2)

N

97% (29)

3% (1)

100% (7)

0%

  1. Transmission success was calculated as the proportion of ticks infected with strain 1 (or strain 2) relative to the total number of infected ticks. The number of ticks infected with each strain are in brackets.
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BMC Microbiology

ISSN: 1471-2180

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