Spirochetes Unwound

Blogging about those twisty bacteria known as spirochetes

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Sunday, February 22, 2009

Viewing the arrangement of Borrelia burgdorferi flagella by electron cryotomography

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The most peculiar feature of spirochetes may be the location of their flagella, the thin motility structures that propel bacteria through li...
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Saturday, February 7, 2009

The Lyme disease spirochete hijacks fibronectin to escape from the bloodstream

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The glycoprotein fibronectin is a component of the molecular mesh known as the extracellular matrix, which not only provides physical suppo...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Watch videos of the Lyme disease spirochete escaping from the bloodstream of live mice!

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Most pathogenic microbes that cause systemic infections, regardless of their route of host entry, migrate to the circulatory system, which f...
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Sunday, January 18, 2009

The origin of syphilis: a phylogenetic approach

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K.N. Harper, P.S. Ocampo, B.M. Steiner, R.W. George, M.S. Silverman, S. Bolotin, A. Pillay, N.J. Saunders, and G.J. Armelagos. (2008). On t...
Sunday, January 11, 2009

Chronic Lyme disease in mice?

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E. Hodzic, S. Feng, K. Holden, K.J. Freet, and S.W. Barthold. (2008). Persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi following antibiotic treatment i...
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