Competence of American Robins as Reservoir Hosts for Lyme Disease Spirochetes
Dania Richter,*† Andrew Spielman,* Nicholas Komar,* and Franz-Rainer
Matuschka*†
*Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; and †Charité, Medizinische Fakultät der
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Figure. 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.
