Population bottlenecks during the infectious cycle of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi.

Borrelia burgdorferi is a zoonotic pathogen whose maintenance in nature depends upon an infectious cycle that alternates between a tick vector and mammalian hosts. Lyme disease in humans results from transmission of B. burgdorferi by the bite of an infected tick. The population dynamics of B. burgdo...

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Main Authors: Ryan O M Rego, Aaron Bestor, Jan Stefka, Patricia A Rosa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24979342/pdf/?tool=EBI