Clocking the Lyme Spirochete
In order to clear the body of infecting spirochetes, phagocytic cells must be able to get hold of them. In real-time phase-contrast videomicroscopy we were able to measure the speed of Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), the Lyme spirochete, moving back and forth across a platelet to which it was tethered. I...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2008
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2237901/ |