Vaccination with the variable tick protein of the relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia hermsii protects mice from infection by tick-bite

BACKGROUND: Tick-borne relapsing fevers of humans are caused by spirochetes that must adapt to both warm-blooded vertebrates and cold-blooded ticks. In western North America, most human cases of relapsing fever are caused by Borrelia hermsii, which cycles in nature between its tick vector Ornithodor...

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Autores principales: Krajacich, Benjamin J., Lopez, Job E., Raffel, Sandra J., Schwan, Tom G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4618142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26490040
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-1170-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4618142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26490040
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-1170-1

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