Development of genetic system to inactivate a Borrelia turicatae surface protein selectively produced within the salivary glands of the arthropod vector.

• Главные авторы: Job E Lopez (Автор), Hannah K Wilder (Автор), Reid Hargrove (Автор), Christopher P Brooks (Автор), Karin E Peterson (Автор), Paul A Beare (Автор), Daniel E Sturdevant (Автор), Vijayaraj Nagarajan (Автор), Sandra J Raffel (Автор), Tom G Schwan (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Borrelia turicatae, an agent of tick-borne relapsing fever, is an example of a pathogen that can adapt to disparate conditions found when colonizing the mammalian host and arthropod vector. However, little is known about the genetic factors necessary during the tick-mammalian infectious cycle, there...