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Multiple-strain infections of Borrelia afzelii: a role for within-host interactions in the maintenance of antigenic diversity?

The American naturalist - 1 Apr 2013

Andersson Martin, Scherman Kristin, Råberg Lars

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Genetically diverse infections are common but little is known about what effects coinfecting strains have on each other in natural host-parasite systems. To explore the nature and consequences of interactions in the wild, we studied the tick-transmitted bacterium Borrelia afzelii in one of its main reservoir hosts, the bank vole Myodes glareolus. We measured overall infection intensity with quantitative...

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PMID: 23535618
DOI: 10.1086/669905

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