Protozoan Parasite Babesia microti Subverts Adaptive Immunity and Enhances Lyme Disease Severity

Protozoan Parasite Babesia microti Subverts Adaptive Immunity and Enhances Lyme Disease Severity

Lyme disease is the most prominent tick-borne disease in the United States. Co-infections with the tick-transmitted pathogens Babesia microti and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto are becoming a serious health problem. B. burgdorferi is an extracellular spirochete that causes Lyme disease while B....

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Main Authors: Vitomir Djokic, Lavoisier Akoolo, Shekerah Primus, Samantha Schlachter, Kathleen Kelly, Purnima Bhanot, Nikhat Parveen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Borrelia burgdorferi
Babesia microti
Lyme disease
babesiosis
co-infection
tick-borne co-infection
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01596/full

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