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SUBMITTER: Malawista SE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2237901 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Malawista Stephen E SE de Boisfleury Chevance Anne A
PloS one 20080220 2
In order to clear the body of infecting spirochetes, phagocytic cells must be able to get hold of them. In real-time phase-contrast videomicroscopy we were able to measure the speed of Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), the Lyme spirochete, moving back and forth across a platelet to which it was tethered. Its mean crossing speed was 1,636 microm/min (N = 28), maximum, 2800 microm/min (N = 3). This is the fastest speed recorded for a spirochete, and upward of two orders of magnitude above the speed of a ...[more]