Spirochetal motility and chemotaxis in the natural enzootic cycle and development of Lyme disease

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue , 2015, Pages 106-113

  Motaleb, M D A ^a   Liu, Jun ^b   Mark Wooten, R ^c  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMOTAXIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SPIROCHETAL MOTILITY; SPIROCHETE; TICK; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; ARACHNID VECTOR; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; FLAGELLUM; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHEMOTAXIS; FLAGELLA; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MOVEMENT; SPIROCHAETALES; TICKS;

EID: 84945949541     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2015.09.006     Document Type: Review

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