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The controlled chaos of shifty pathogens
1Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA. dfaguy@unm.edu
Current Biology : CB
|July 19, 2000
Abstract:
Bacterial pathogens use novel mechanisms to vary their surface structures. Three new genome sequences provide a perspective on these mechanisms in Borrelia burgdorferi, Neisseria meningitidis, and Campylobacter jejuni, which cause lyme disease, meningitis and gastroenteritis, respectively.