Spirochetes Unwound
Blogging about those twisty bacteria known as spirochetes
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Monday, August 29, 2011
BAM! A rare outer membrane protein of the stealth pathogen
Treponema pallidum
hidden in plain sight
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Our immune system is capable of generating antibody against bacterial proteins located inside and outside of the bacterial cell. However on...
Monday, July 4, 2011
Does
Borrelia burgdorferi
cause an inadequate antibody response by altering B cell activation in the lymph node?
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One of the characteristic features of Lyme disease is lymphadenopathy or swollen lymph nodes. It's not too surprising when a lymph nod...
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Saturday, June 4, 2011
Membrane fusion between
Borrelia
spirochetes, a new type of bacterial interaction
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It's not unusual for bacteria to collide while swimming around in culture medium. When this happens, the bacteria simply bounce off eac...
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Sunday, May 1, 2011
A new attenuated leptospirosis vaccine protects hamsters from lethal infection by more than one serovar of
Leptospira
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Scientists have demonstrated that a new attenuated leptospirosis vaccine protects laboratory hamsters from being killed by Leptospira , even...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Dual role of TLR8 during the engulfment of Lyme disease spirochetes by human monocytes
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For the first time scientists have shown that Toll-like receptor 8 (TLR8), a microbial RNA sensor located inside phagocytes, detects what is...
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