Borrelia burgdorferi persistence post-antibiotic treatment

The Pathogenic Spirochetes: Strategies for Evasion of Host Immunity and Persistence

Volumn 9781461454045, Issue , 2012, Pages 229-257

  Embers, Monica E ^a   Barthold, Stephen W ^b  

^a TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5404-5_12     Document Type: Chapter

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