Spirochetes Unwound

A pair of European doctors wrote about the trials of a 37-year-old man who came down with Weil's disease, a severe form of leptospirosis...

Syphilis patients are able to generate antibodies against the spirochete Treponema pallidum .  However, if you were to mix sera from these p...

Conventional vaccines target the surface components or secreted toxins of pathogens.  Erol Fikrig's group at Yale University has been ex...

Bacterial lipoproteins are proteins with covalently-attached lipid molecules that anchor the protein to the cytoplasmic or outer membrane.  ...

Because leptospirosis is a potentially fatal disease, it would be worthwhile to figure out which of the many genes on the two chromosomes of...