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Closely-related Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu stricto) strains exhibit similar fitness in single infections and asymmetric competition in multiple infections

BACKGROUND: Wild hosts are commonly co-infected with complex, genetically diverse, pathogen communities. Competition is expected between genetically or ecologically similar pathogen strains which may influence patterns of coexistence. However, there is little data on how specific strains of these di...

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Autores principales: Rynkiewicz, Evelyn C., Brown, Julia, Tufts, Danielle M., Huang, Ching-I, Kampen, Helge, Bent, Stephen J., Fish, Durland, Diuk-Wasser, Maria A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5292797/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28166814
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1964-9