A life cycle for Borrelia spirochetes?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 810-818

  MacDonald, Alan B ^a  

^a St Catherine of Siena Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENE MUTATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LIFE CYCLE; MAMMAL CELL; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROCHETE; STEREOTYPY; TREPONEMA;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA; INSECTS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPIROCHAETALES;

BORRELIA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; SPIROCHAETALES; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 33745940140     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.03.028     Document Type: Article

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