YebC regulates variable surface antigen VlsE expression and is required for host immune evasion in Borrelia burgdorferi

Oct. 2020 PLOS PATHOGENS Abstract Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease pathogen causes persistent infection by evading the host immune response.... View Article

Tick-borne disease is multiple microbial in nature

Nov. 1, 2018 A study recently published in Scientific Reports discovered that 65% of Lyme disease patients irrespective of their... View Article

Scientists finally figured out why you rarely get sick in the summer

Ever wonder where colds get their name? Or why we’re all coughs and sniffles during the winter but are rarely... View Article

The immune system cannot generate immunological memory during infection with the Lyme disease agent B. burgdorfer

R.A. Elsner, S.W. Barthold, N. Baumgarth http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1043466613003542 Graduate Group in Microbiology and the Center for Comparative Medicine, University of California-Davis,... View Article

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YebC regulates variable surface antigen VlsE expression and is required for host immune evasion in Borrelia burgdorferi

Tick-borne disease is multiple microbial in nature

Scientists finally figured out why you rarely get sick in the summer

The immune system cannot generate immunological memory during infection with the Lyme disease agent B. burgdorfer