Spirochetes come in from the cold

Barbour, Alan G.

doi:10.1038/nm0898-890

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Published: 01 August 1998

Spirochetes come in from the cold

Alan G. Barbour¹

Nature Medicine volume 4, pages 890–891 (1998)Cite this article

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Spirochetes alter their major surface proteins in response to the temperature change that accompanies their passage from tick vector to mammalian host.

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