Variation among strains of Borrelia burgdorferi in host tissue abundance and lifetime transmission determine the population strain structure in nature

• Christopher B. Zinck ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chris.zinck@usask.ca (CBZ); maarten.voordouw@usask.ca (MJV)

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Prasobh Raveendram Thampy,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Eva-Maria E. Uhlemann,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Hesham Adam,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Jenny Wachter,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Danae Suchan,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliations Institute for Microbial Systems and Society, Faculty of Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Department of Biology, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Andrew D. S. Cameron,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliations Institute for Microbial Systems and Society, Faculty of Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Department of Biology, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Ryan O. M. Rego,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

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

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• Dustin Brisson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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• Catherine Bouchard,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Public Health Risk Sciences, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, St Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada, Groupe de recherche en épidémiologie des zoonoses et santé publique (GREZOSP), Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

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• Nicholas H. Ogden,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

  Affiliations Public Health Risk Sciences, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, St Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada, Groupe de recherche en épidémiologie des zoonoses et santé publique (GREZOSP), Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada, Centre de recherche en santé publique (CReSP), Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada

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• Maarten J. Voordouw

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

  * E-mail: chris.zinck@usask.ca (CBZ); maarten.voordouw@usask.ca (MJV)

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9384-0436

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