CDC - Vector Interactions and Molecular Adaptations of Lyme Disease and Relapsing Fever Spirochetes Associated with Transmission by Ticks

	EID Home \| Upcoming Issues and Ahead-of-Print Articles \| Past Issues \| EID Search \| Contact Us Volume 8, Number 2, February 2002 *Perspective* Vector Interactions and Molecular Adaptations of Lyme Disease and Relapsing Fever Spirochetes Associated with Transmission by Ticks *Tom G. Schwan and Joseph Piesman^†***National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, USA; and ^†Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

	Back to article Figure 2. Borrelia hermsii visualized with an immunofluorescent stain in a thin blood smear of an experimentally infected mouse. Such recurrent, high densities of spirochetes circulating in the peripheral blood of small mammals allows for the acquisition of these bacteria by fast-feeding ticks that ingest a small volume of blood.

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