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Role of outer surface protein D in the Borrelia burgdorferi life cycle.
Infection and immunity - 1 Sept 2007
Li Xin, Neelakanta Girish, Liu Xianzhong, Beck Deborah S, Kantor Fred S, Fish Durland, Anderson John F, Fikrig Erol
Abstract excerpt
Borrelia burgdorferi preferentially induces selected genes in mice or ticks, and studies suggest that ospD is down-regulated in response to host-specific signals. We now directly show that ospD expression is generally elevated within Ixodes scapularis compared with mice. We then assessed the impo...
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