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<i>Peromyscus leucopus</i> , <i>Mus musculus</i> , and humans have distinct transcriptomic responses to larval <i>Ixodes scapularis</i> bites
2024-05-05
Abstract excerpt
Ixodes scapularis ticks are an important vector for at least six tick-borne human pathogens, including the predominant North American Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi . The ability for these ticks to survive in nature is credited, in part, to their ability to feed on a variety of hosts without excessive activation of the proinflammatory branch of the vertebrate immune system. While the ability for nym...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 4bf77348-7ddb-5428-89d2-7722d8298cf7
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.05.02.592193
