Author: Petzke, M.; Schwartz, I.
Description: Borrelia burgdorferi is the tick-borne etiologic agent of Lyme disease. The spirochete must negotiate numerous barriers in order to establish a disseminated infection in a mammalian host. These barriers include migration from the feeding tick midgut to the salivary glands, deposition in skin, manipulation or evasion of the localized host immune response, adhesion to and extravasation through an endothelial barrier, hematogenous dissemination, and establishment of infection in distal tissue sites. Borrelia burgdorferi proteins that mediate many of these processes and the nature of the host response to infection are described.
Subject headings: Animals; Antigens, Bacterial/analysis; Borrelia burgdorferi/genetics/immunology/pathogenicity; Humans; Immune Evasion; Immunity, Innate; Integrins/metabolism; Adhesins; Genotypic variation; Immune evasion; Lyme disease; Type I interferon
Publication year: 2015
Journal or book title: Clinics in Laboratory Medicine
Volume: 35
Issue: 4
Pages: 745-764
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Type: Journal Article
Serial number: 1746