Experimental Demonstration of Reservoir Competence of the White-Footed Mouse, Peromyscus leucopus (Rodentia: Cricetidae), for the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia mayonii (Spirochaetales: Spirochaetaceae)
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DOI: 10.1093/jme/tjz242
Abstract: Abstract The white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque), is a reservoir for the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto in the eastern half of the United States, where the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say (Acari:… read more here.
Keywords: reservoir; mayonii; lyme disease; disease spirochete ... See more keywords
The Consistent Tick-Vertebrate Infectious Cycle of the Lyme Disease Spirochete Enables Borrelia burgdorferi To Control Protein Expression by Monitoring Its Physiological Status
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DOI: 10.1128/jb.00606-21
Abstract: The Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, persists in nature by alternatingly cycling between ticks and vertebrates. During each stage of the infectious cycle, B. burgdorferi produces surface proteins that are necessary for interactions with the… read more here.
Keywords: lyme disease; vertebrate; disease spirochete; borrelia burgdorferi ... See more keywords
Strict Conservation yet Non-Essential Nature of Plasmid Gene bba40 in the Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi
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DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.00477-23
Abstract: The key finding of this study contradicts our premise that the ubiquitous presence and strict sequence conservation of a unique gene in the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, reflect a critical role in either the… read more here.
Keywords: cycle; disease; lyme disease; disease spirochete ... See more keywords
The Putative Endonuclease Activity of MutL Is Required for the Segmental Gene Conversion Events That Drive Antigenic Variation of the Lyme Disease Spirochete
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DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.888494
Abstract: The Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, encodes an elaborate antigenic variation system that promotes the ongoing variation of a major surface lipoprotein, VlsE. Changes in VlsE are continual and always one step ahead of the… read more here.
Keywords: antigenic variation; lyme disease; mutl; variation ... See more keywords