Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Competence of American Robins as Reservoir Hosts for Lyme Disease Spirochetes

Dania Richter*†

, Andrew Spielman*, Nicholas Komar*, and Franz-Rainer Matuschka*†

Author affiliations: *Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; and †Charité, Medizinische Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

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Infectivity to larval vector ticks of four American robins exposed to nymphal deer ticks infected with Lyme disease spirochetes on days 0 and 186. Each observation was recorded on the day on which each xenodiagnostic test was complete.

Figure 2. Infectivity to larval vector ticks of four American robins exposed to nymphal deer ticks infected with Lyme disease spirochetes on days 0 and 186. Each observation was recorded on the day on which each xenodiagnostic test was complete.

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