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The Lyme Disease Pathogen Has No Effect on the Survival of Its Rodent Reservoir Host

Zoonotic pathogens that cause devastating morbidity and mortality in humans may be relatively harmless in their natural reservoir hosts. The tick-borne bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi causes Lyme disease in humans but few studies have investigated whether this pathogen reduces the fitness of its rese...

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Autores principales: Voordouw, Maarten J., Lachish, Shelly, Dolan, Marc C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4331372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25688863
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118265