Virulence of pathogenic Borrelia
By Linda on Nov 25, 2009 in Infections | comments(0)
Passage through Ixodes scapularis ticks enhances the virulence of a weakly pathogenic isolate of Borrelia burgdorferi.
Adusumilli S, Booth CJ, Anguita J, Fikrig E. Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America; Section of Comparative Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America; Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America.
