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SUBMITTER: Kurtenbach K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC128348 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kurtenbach Klaus K Schäfer Stefanie M SM Sewell Henna-Sisko HS Peacey Mick M Hoodless Andrew A Nuttall Patricia A PA Randolph Sarah E SE
Infection and immunity 20021001 10
The abilities of the most common European genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato to survive blood meals taken by ticks feeding on birds were analyzed. A pattern of differential survival of the spirochetes in feeding ticks was observed. The result is consistent with the concept of selective transmission of Lyme borreliosis spirochetes. ...[more]