Population Bottlenecks during the Infectious Cycle of the Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi

• Ryan O. M. Rego ,

  * E-mail: ryanrego@paru.cas.cz

  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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• Aaron Bestor,

  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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• Jan Štefka,

  Affiliations Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, Institute of Parasitology, ASCR, Biology Centre, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

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• Patricia A. Rosa

  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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