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Bacterial pathogenesis: a variation on variation in Lyme disease

M Koomey1

  • 1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109 USA. mkoomey@umich.edu

Current Biology : CB
|September 1, 1997
PubMed
Summary

Antigenic variation in Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease bacterium, may explain chronic infections. This discovery also reveals insights into the genetic mechanisms driving bacterial diversity.

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