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†

Author affiliations: *National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, USA; †Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

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Figure 3

Figure 3. Borrelia hermsii visualized with an anti-variable small protein (Vsp) 33 antibody in a squashed salivary gland of Ornithodoros hermsi. Persistent infection of the salivary glands allows these spirochetes to be transmitted in only minutes while these ticks feed.

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