First arrived takes all: Inhibitory priority effects dominate competition between co-infecting Borrelia burgdorferi strains Ecological and evolutionary microbiology

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Devevey, Godefroy ^a,b   Dang, Trang ^a,c   Graves, Christopher J ^a,d   Murray, Sarah ^a   Brisson, Dustin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparent competition; Borrelia burdgorferi; Coinfection; OspC; Priority effect; Strain competition; Transmission

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MIXED INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; OSPC GENE; PREVALENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIBIOSIS; C3H MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TICK;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODIDA; MUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBIOSIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COINFECTION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; LYME DISEASE; MICE, INBRED C3H; TICKS;

EID: 85011549594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12866-015-0381-0     Document Type: Article

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