Borrelia burgdorferi-induced inflammation facilitates spirochete adaptation and variable major protein-like sequence locus recombination.

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Published in J Immunol on September 15, 2001

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J Anguita1, V Thomas, S Samanta, R Persinski, C Hernanz, S W Barthold, E Fikrig

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1: Section of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.

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