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Host tropism determination by convergent evolution of immunological evasion in the Lyme disease system

Pathogens possess the ability to adapt and survive in some host species but not in others–an ecological trait known as host tropism. Transmitted through ticks and carried mainly by mammals and birds, the Lyme disease (LD) bacterium is a well-suited model to study such tropism. Three main causative a...

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Autores principales: Hart, Thomas M., Dupuis, Alan P., Tufts, Danielle M., Blom, Anna M., Starkey, Simon R., Rego, Ryan O. M., Ram, Sanjay, Kraiczy, Peter, Kramer, Laura D., Diuk-Wasser, Maria A., Kolokotronis, Sergios-Orestis, Lin, Yi-Pin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8354441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34324600
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1009801