Borrelia Ecology

The three-stage activity aeon of the Ixodes tick. From the American Lyme Ache Foundation
The assorted breed of Borrelia are accepted to bodies in the anatomy of Lyme ache and alternating fever, transmitted through beat or flea bite. The aeon of Borrelia through animals is accompanying to the tick's activity cycle. The beat has four stages in its two-year activity cycle, egg, larva, damsel and adult. Between anniversary date the beat needs a claret meal in adjustment to mature. The beat usually acquires the spirochaete during its abecedarian stage, if it feeds on baby animals such as rodents or birds. Usually the beat picks up Borrelia from the white-footed mouse, which is frequently infected. The beat again becomes the host for the spirochaete. The bacilli resides in the digestive amplitude of the host for its next damsel and developed stages during which it is anesthetized on to added animals, and sometimes humans.