The impact of in vitro cultivation on the natural life cycle of the tick-borne relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia turicatae

• Aparna Krishnavajhala,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Brittany A. Armstrong,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Job E. Lopez

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: job.lopez@bcm.edu

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4802-5779

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