Borrelia valaisiana Resist Complement-Mediated Killing Independently of the Recruitment of Immune Regulators and Inactivation of Complement Components

• Jasmin Schwab,

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

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• Claudia Hammerschmidt,

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

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• Dania Richter,

  Affiliation Abteilung Parasitologie, Institut für Pathologie, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Christine Skerka,

  Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany

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• Franz-Rainer Matuschka,

  Affiliation Abteilung Parasitologie, Institut für Pathologie, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Reinhard Wallich,

  Affiliation Institute of Immunology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Peter F. Zipfel,

  Affiliations Department of Infection Biology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

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• Peter Kraiczy

  * E-mail: Kraiczy@em.uni-frankfurt.de

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

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