| experimental inoculation of mallard ducks (anas platyrhynchos platyrhynchos) with borrelia burgdorferi. | birds have been incriminated as disseminaters of borrelia burgdorferi and have the potential to spread the organism over a wide geographic range. borrelia burgdorferi has been isolated from the liver and blood of passerine birds and from ixodes dammini removed from passerines. the objective of this study was to determine if waterfowl, specifically mallards (anas platyrhynchos platyrhynchos), were susceptible to infection with b. burgdorferi. eight ducks were inoculated with b. burgdorferi; four ... | 1989 | 2644453 |