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Table 1.

Presence of intact salivary glands in nymphal Ornithodoros hermsi infected with Borrelia hermsii examined intermittently 7–448 days after an infectious bloodmeal

Study	Days examined^a	Intact salivary glands	SG +/ SG	% SG infected^b	Reference
1	33–144	41/41	41/41	100%	Schwan and Hinnebusch 1998
2	7–448	103/103	81/103	78.6%	Raffel et al. 2014
3	14–203	16/16	9/16	56.3%	Schwan et al. 2020
4	7–260	31/31	29/31	93.5%	Schwan 2021
Totals		191/191	160/191	83.3%

Study	Days examined^a	Intact salivary glands	SG +/ SG	% SG infected^b	Reference
1	33–144	41/41	41/41	100%	Schwan and Hinnebusch 1998
2	7–448	103/103	81/103	78.6%	Raffel et al. 2014
3	14–203	16/16	9/16	56.3%	Schwan et al. 2020
4	7–260	31/31	29/31	93.5%	Schwan 2021
Totals		191/191	160/191	83.3%

^aDays after tick feeding.

^bMajority of those salivary glands not infected were examined during the first 2 wk after feeding.

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