Lyme disease (Lyme borreliosis) is a tick-borne, zoonosis of adults and children caused by
genospecies of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex. The ailment, widespread …

Lyme disease Borrelia are obligately parasitic, tick-transmitted, invasive, persistent bacterial
pathogens that cause disease in humans and non-reservoir vertebrates primarily through …

Chemotaxis enables microorganisms to move according to chemical gradients. Although
this process requires substantial cellular energy, it also affords key physiological benefits …

Lyme disease is on the rise. Caused by a spirochete Borreliella burgdorferi, it affects an
estimated 500,000 people in the United States alone. The antibiotics currently used to treat …

Borrelia burgdorferi is the etiological agent of Lyme disease, a multisystemic, multistage,
inflammatory infection resulting in patients experiencing cardiac, neurological, and arthritic …

All members of the Borrelia genus that have been examined harbour a linear chromosome
that is about 900 kbp in length, as well as a plethora of both linear and circular plasmids in …

Abstract The Lyme disease agent, Borrelia burgdorferi, colonizes the gut of the tick Ixodes
scapularis, which transmits the pathogen to vertebrate hosts including humans. Here we …

Borrelia (Borreliella) burgdorferi, along with closely related species, is the etiologic agent of
Lyme disease. The spirochete subsists in an enzootic cycle that encompasses acquisition …

Maintenance of Borrelia burgdorferi within its enzootic cycle requires a complex regulatory
pathway involving the alternative σ factors RpoN and RpoS and two ancillary trans-acting …

Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease (along with closely related
genospecies), is in the deeply branching spirochete phylum. The bacterium is maintained in …