Not all cell walls are created equal. Take the peculiar makeup of the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium’s cell wall. It might play a role in lingering symptoms of Lyme disease — the most common ...

Samples from hundreds of patients revealed that certain strains of the Lyme bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, have a protective outer layer that contains more of a type of protein that appears to ...

In the January 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation researchers from Yale University demonstrate that an outer surface protein, OspC, of the organism Borrelia burgdorferi, which ...

The bacterium responsible for Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, originated in America, or so researchers thought. Now, however, scientists has shown that this bug in fact came from Europe ...

She has examined the occurrence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) in ticks and which genotypes of the bacterium occur in ticks in Norway. Her results show that a larger proportion of the ...

The bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi is carried by blacklegged ticks that attach themselves to deer, mice, and other small animals. This bacteria doesn’t make those animals sick but can cause Lyme ...

Scientists tested 35 essential oils against the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme disease. Ten of them - including garlic, thyme, cinammon, allspice and cumin - killed off so-called ...