Competence of American Robins as reservoir hosts for Lyme disease spirochetes

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 133-138

  Richter, Dania ^a,b   Spielman, Andrew ^a   Komar, Nicholas ^a   Matuschka, Franz Rainer ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; SPIROCHETE; TICK;

EID: 0034009469     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0602.000205     Document Type: Article

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