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Borrelia burgdorferi is a member of the spirochete phylum of bacteria, which represents an ancient evolutionary branch only distantly related to gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. It is ...

Reason For Body’s Response To Borrelia Discovered Date: October 13, 2008 Source: Vetenskapsrådet (The Swedish Research Council) Summary: Inside a cell it is so crowded that a certain protein ...

Borrelia burgdorferi, one of the bacteria species causing Lyme disease, has a small genome and is therefore highly dependent on its hosts to obtain many necessary metabolites. Its small genome makes B ...

MILFORD, Conn., July 10, 2025--Sin Hang Lee, M.D., director of Milford Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory in Milford, Conn., announces that the Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes invading the blood ...

A new chapter in the Lyme disease controversy opened in September 2011 when Advanced Laboratory Services, Inc, announced the commercial availability of a new culture test for Borrelia burgdorferi ...

The bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected deer ticks and in 2002 caused more than 23,000 infections in the United States, mostly localized to California ...

Borrelia infection in ticks in Norway Date: June 24, 2011 Source: Norwegian School of Veterinary Science Summary: The most common tick-borne disease in humans is Lyme borreliosis. Extensive field ...

Extracts from both plants were found to kill microcolonies of Borrelia burgdorferi and inhibit division of the planktonic form, even at low concentrations (0.03-0.5%).