Competence of American Robins as Reservoir Hosts for Lyme Disease Spirochetes
To explore the competence of American robins as a reservoir for Lyme disease spirochetes, we determined the susceptibility of these birds to tickborne spirochetes and their subsequent infectivity for larval vector ticks. Robins acquired infection and became infectious to almost all xenodiagnostic ti...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2000-04-01
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| Series: | Emerging Infectious Diseases |
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| Online Access: | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/6/2/00-0205_article |