Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, is known to employ a variety of mechanisms to counteract eradication by its host, including the adoption of several alternate morphologies in response to changing environmental conditions
Источник материала: Characterization of Biofilm Formation by Borrelia burgdorferi In Vitro
Sapi E, Bastian SL, Mpoy CM, Scott S, Rattelle A, et al. (2012) Characterization of Biofilm Formation by Borrelia burgdorferi In Vitro. PLoS ONE 7(10): e48277. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0048277
Editor: Christiane Forestier, Université d'Auvergne Clermont 1, France
Received: April 18, 2012; Accepted: September 24, 2012; Published: October 24, 2012
Copyright: © 2012 Sapi et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: This work was supported by grants from the Turn the Corner Foundation, the Lyme Disease Association, Lyme Research Alliance and the University of New Haven to ES. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Источник материала: Characterization of Biofilm Formation by Borrelia burgdorferi In Vitro
Sapi E, Bastian SL, Mpoy CM, Scott S, Rattelle A, et al. (2012) Characterization of Biofilm Formation by Borrelia burgdorferi In Vitro. PLoS ONE 7(10): e48277. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0048277
Editor: Christiane Forestier, Université d'Auvergne Clermont 1, France
Received: April 18, 2012; Accepted: September 24, 2012; Published: October 24, 2012
Copyright: © 2012 Sapi et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: This work was supported by grants from the Turn the Corner Foundation, the Lyme Disease Association, Lyme Research Alliance and the University of New Haven to ES. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
