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Formation and cultivation of Borrelia burgdorferi spheroplast-L-form variants.
Infection - 1 Jan 2000
Mursic V P, Wanner G, Reinhardt S, Wilske B, Busch U, Marget W
Abstract excerpt
As clinical persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi in patients with active Lyme borreliosis occurs despite obviously adequate antibiotic therapy, in vitro investigations of morphological variants and atypical forms of B. burgdorferi were undertaken. In an attempt to learn more about the variation of B. burgdorferi and the role of atypical forms in Lyme borreliosis, borreliae isolated from antibiotically treated and...
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