Strain-specific joint invasion and colonization by Lyme disease spirochetes is promoted by outer surface protein C

• Yi-Pin Lin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, New York State Department of Health, Wadsworth Center, Albany, New York, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5240-2031

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• Xi Tan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xi Tan, Jennifer A. Caine

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8128-9082

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• Jennifer A. Caine ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xi Tan, Jennifer A. Caine

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, and Center for Infectious Disease Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7649-0267

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• Mildred Castellanos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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• George Chaconas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9611-2095

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• Jenifer Coburn ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jcoburn@mcw.edu (JC); John.Leong@tufts.edu (JML)

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, and Center for Infectious Disease Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6460-2017

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• John M. Leong

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jcoburn@mcw.edu (JC); John.Leong@tufts.edu (JML)

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0240-6402

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