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Preferential Protection of<i>Borrelia burgdorferi</i>Sensu Stricto by a Salp15 Homologue in<i>Ixodes ricinus</i>Saliva

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2008

Year

Joppe W. Hovius, Tim J. Schuijt, Karel de Groot, Joris J. T. H. Roelofs, G. Anneke Oei, J. Arnoud Marquart, Regina de Beer, Cornelis van ′t Veer, Tom van der Poll, Nandhini Ramamoorthi,
The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Abstract

Salp15 Iric-1 interacts with all European Borrelia species but differentially protects B. burgdorferi from antibody-mediated killing, putatively giving this Borrelia species a survival advantage in nature.

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