Tick salivary proteins offer the lyme disease spirochetes an easy ride and another way to hide

Richard T Marconi; John V McDowell

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2011.08.003

Tick salivary proteins offer the lyme disease spirochetes an easy ride and another way to hide

Cell Host Microbe. 2011 Aug 18;10(2):95-6. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2011.08.003.

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Richard T Marconi¹, John V McDowell

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¹ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298-0678, USA. rmarconi@vcu.edu

Abstract

The ability of the Lyme disease spirochetes to establish an infection in mammals is dependent in part on proteins of tick origin. Schuijt et al. (2011) investigate the role of the tick-derived protein, TSLPI, in spirochete transmission and in the evasion of killing by the lectin complement pathway.

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