Evaluation of the Importance of VlsE Antigenic Variation for the Enzootic Cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi.

Efficient acquisition and transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi by the tick vector, and the ability to persistently infect both vector and host, are important elements for the life cycle of the Lyme disease pathogen. Previous work has provided strong evidence implicating the significance of the vls l...

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Main Authors: Artem S Rogovskyy, Timothy Casselli, Yvonne Tourand, Cami R Jones, Jeb P Owen, Kathleen L Mason, Glen A Scoles, Troy Bankhead
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4404307?pdf=render