Development of Genetic System to Inactivate a Borrelia turicatae Surface Protein Selectively Produced within the Salivary Glands of the Arthropod Vector

• Job E. Lopez ,

  * E-mail: JLopez@biology.msstate.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Hannah K. Wilder,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Reid Hargrove,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Christopher P. Brooks,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Karin E. Peterson,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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• Paul A. Beare,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Intracellular Parasites, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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• Daniel E. Sturdevant,

  Affiliation Research Technologies Branch, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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• Vijayaraj Nagarajan,

  Affiliation Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch, Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Sandra J. Raffel,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Zoonotic Pathogens, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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• Tom G. Schwan

  Affiliation Laboratory of Zoonotic Pathogens, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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