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Identification of potential virulence determinants by Himar1 transposition of infectious Borrelia burgdorferi B31.
Infection and immunity - 1 Dec 2006
Botkin Douglas J, Abbott April N, Stewart Philip E, Rosa Patricia A, Kawabata Hiroki, Watanabe Haruo, Norris Steven J
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Lyme disease Borrelia organisms are highly invasive spirochetes that alternate between vertebrate and arthropod hosts and that establish chronic infections and elicit inflammatory reactions in mammals. Although progress has been made in the targeted mutagenesis of individual genes in infectious B...
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