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**Caused by ''Borrelia burgdorferi''
 
**Caused by ''Borrelia burgdorferi''
 
**Reported in humans, dogs, horses, cattle, sheep
 
**Reported in humans, dogs, horses, cattle, sheep
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**Ticks are the vector, which acquire the infection from small rodents, the reservoir hosts
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**Ticks transmit the infection to large mammals such as deer and sheep
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**''Ixodes ricinus'' is the most common tick vector in Europe
    
   
 
   
 
[[Brachyspira hyodysenteriae]]
 
[[Brachyspira hyodysenteriae]]
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[[Leptospira]]
 
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