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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Autores principales: Richter, D, Spielman, A, Komar, N, Matuschka, F R
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640847/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10756146

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640847/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10756146

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