Outer Surface Protein B Is Critical for Borrelia burgdorferi Adherence and Survival within Ixodes Ticks

Girish Neelakanta; Xin Li; Utpal Pal; Xianzhong Liu; Deborah S Beck; Kathleen DePonte; Durland Fish; Fred S Kantor; Erol Fikrig

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.0030033

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Outer Surface Protein B Is Critical for Borrelia burgdorferi Adherence and Survival within Ixodes Ticks

Girish Neelakanta ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Girish Neelakanta, Xin Li

Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Xin Li ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Girish Neelakanta, Xin Li

Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Utpal Pal,

¤ Current address: Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Xianzhong Liu,

Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Deborah S Beck,

Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Kathleen DePonte,

Affiliation Section of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Durland Fish,

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Fred S Kantor,

Affiliation Section of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Erol Fikrig

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: erol.fikrig@yale.edu

Affiliations Section of Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America , Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Outer Surface Protein B Is Critical for Borrelia burgdorferi Adherence and Survival within Ixodes Ticks

Girish Neelakanta,
Xin Li,
Utpal Pal,
Xianzhong Liu,
Deborah S Beck,
Kathleen DePonte,
Durland Fish,
Fred S Kantor,
Erol Fikrig

Published: March 9, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.0030033

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