BBE02 disruption mutants of Borrelia burgdorferi B31 have a highly transformable, infectious phenotype.

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Published in Infect Immun on December 01, 2004

Authors

Hiroki Kawabata1, Steven J Norris, Haruo Watanabe

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Bacteriology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Toyama 1-23-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan. kbata@nih.go.jp

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