Overview of potential reservoir species investigated in BD endemic regions so far.

aspecimens were collected in the district of Feuchtwangen, Central Franconia, Bavaria, Germany 1994–1995 and investigated by Ralf Dürrwald, the results were not published but mentioned in reference [19];
btested by intracerebral infection of rabbits;
cnumber not mentioned in the publication; tp, this paper; in total at least 558 rodents of at least ten species, nine moles, one hedgehog, 27 common shrews, 29 greater white-toothed shrews, four Eurasian pygmy shrews from BD endemic regions have been investigated for BDV so far, all were negative; 21 of 87 bicolored white-toothed shrews were positive for BDV; at all locations with BD in the recent past BDV-positive bicolored white-toothed shrews were found; at 4 of 9 locations without BD cases in the recent past BDV-positive bicolored white-toothed shrews were detected; only investigations in the regions of classical Borna disease were considered in this table (lowland regions of Baden-Wurttemberg, Bavaria, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Thuringia in Germany and the upper Rhine valley and valleys of tributaries of the upper Rhine in Switzerland, The Principality of Liechtenstein and Austria).