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Outer-Surface Protein C of the Lyme Disease Spirochete: A Protein Induced in Ticks for Infection of Mammals by Grimm, Dorothee, Tilly, Kit, Byram, Rebecca, Stewart, Philip E., Krum, Jonathan G., Bueschel, Dawn M., Schwan, Tom G., Policastro, Paul F., Elias, Abdallah F., Rosa, Patricia A., Falkow, Stanley

“…Environmentally responsive synthesis of surface proteins represents a hallmark of the infectious cycle of the Lyme disease agent, Borrelia burgdorferi. Here we…”
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Borrelia hermsii Acquisition Order in Superinfected Ticks Determines Transmission Efficiency by Policastro, Paul F, Raffel, Sandra J, Schwan, Tom G

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Outer Surface Protein A Protects Lyme Disease Spirochetes from Acquired Host Immunity in the Tick Vector by Battisti, James M, Bono, James L, Rosa, Patricia A, Schrumpf, Merry E, Schwan, Tom G, Policastro, Paul F

“…The Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi alters the expression of outer surface protein (osp) genes as the bacterium cycles between ticks and mammals…”
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Cotransmission of Divergent Relapsing Fever Spirochetes by Artificially Infected Ornithodoros hermsi by POLICASTRO, Paul F, RAFFEL, Sandra J, SCHWAN, Tom G

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Phylogenetic Analysis of the Spirochetes Borrelia parkeri and Borrelia turicatae and the Potential for Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever in Florida by Schwan, Tom G, Raffel, Sandra J, Schrumpf, Merry E, Policastro, Paul F, Rawlings, Julie A, Lane, Robert S, Breitschwerdt, Edward B, Porcella, Stephen F

“…Isolates of Borrelia turicatae, Borrelia parkeri, and the Florida canine borrelia (FCB) were examined to further phylogenetically characterize the identities…”
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Tick-borne relapsing fever caused by Borrelia hermsii, Montana by Schwan, Tom G, Policastro, Paul F, Miller, Zachary, Thompson, Robert L, Damrow, Todd, Keirans, James E

“…Five persons contracted tick-borne relapsing fever after staying in a cabin in western Montana. Borrelia hermsii was isolated from the blood of two patients,…”
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Relapsing Fever Spirochetes Contain Chromosomal Genes with Unique Direct Tandemly Repeated Sequences by Guyard, Cyril, Chester, Earl M, Raffel, Sandra J, Schrumpf, Merry E, Policastro, Paul F, Porcella, Stephen F, Leong, John M, Schwan, Tom G

“…Genome sequencing of the relapsing fever spirochetes Borrelia hermsii and Borrelia turicatae identified three open reading frames (ORFs) on the chromosomes…”
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Interaction of Borrelia burgdorferi Hbb with the p66 promoter by Medrano, Melisa S, Policastro, Paul F, Schwan, Tom G, Coburn, Jenifer

“…Borrelia burgdorferi, an agent of Lyme disease, encodes the β₃-chain integrin ligand P66. P66 is expressed by B. burgdorferi in the mammal, in laboratory…”
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Experimental Infection of Ixodes scapularis Larvae (Acari: Ixodidae) by Immersion in Low Passage Cultures of Borrelia burgdorferi by Policastro, Paul F., Schwan, Tom G.

“…We describe a procedure for the introduction of Borrelia burgdorferi, the spirochetal agent of Lyme disease, into larvae of the tick vector Ixodes scapularis…”
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Defining Plasmids Required by Borrelia burgdorferi for Colonization of Tick Vector Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) by Grimm, Dorothee, Tilly, Kit, Bueschel, Dawn M., Fisher, Mark A., Policastro, Paul F., Gherardini, Frank C., Schwan, Tom G., Rosa, Patricia A.

“…Maintenance in nature of Borrelia burgdorferi, the pathogenic bacterium that causes Lyme disease, requires transmission through an infectious cycle that…”
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Relapsing fever spirochetes retain infectivity after prolonged in vitro cultivation by Lopez, Job E, Schrumpf, Merry E, Raffel, Sandra J, Policastro, Paul F, Porcella, Stephen F, Schwan, Tom G

“…Borrelia hermsii and Borrelia burgdorferi, two closely related spirochetes, are the etiological agents of tick-borne relapsing fever and Lyme disease,…”
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Rickettsia rickettsii growth and temperature-inducible protein expression in embryonic tick cell lines by POLICASTRO, PAUL F, MUNDERLOH, ULRIKE G, FISCHER, ELIZABETH R, HACKSTADT, TED

“…Laboratory of Intracellular Parasites, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH, Hamilton, Montana 59840 Microscopy Branch, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID,…”
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Defining Plasmids Required by Borrelia burgdorferi for Colonization of Tick Vector Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) by Grimm, Dorothee, Tilly, Kit, Bueschel, Dawn M., Fisher, Mark A., Policastro, Paul F., Gherardini, Frank C., Schwan, Tom G., Rosa, Patricia A.

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Defining Plasmids Required by Borrelia burgdorferi for Colonization of Tick Vector Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) by Grimm, Dorothee, Tilly, Kit, Bueschel, Dawn M., Fisher, Mark A., Policastro, Paul F., Gherardini, Frank C., Schwan, Tom G., Rosa, Patricia A.

“…Maintenance in nature of Borrelia burgdorferi, the pathogenic bacterium that causes Lyme disease, requires transmission through an infectious cycle that…”
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Differential activity of Rickettsia rickettsii ompA and ompB promoter regions in a heterologous reporter gene system by Policastro, Paul F, Hackstadt, Ted

“…Laboratory of Intracellular Parasites, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH, Hamilton, Montana 59840, USA Author for correspondence: Paul F. Policastro…”
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Improved plaque assays for Rickettsia prowazekii in Vero76 cells by POLICASTRO, P. F, PEACOCK, M. G, HACKSTADT, T

“…Typhus group rickettsiae, including Rickettsia prowazekii and R. typhi, produce visible plaques on primary chick embryo fibroblasts and low-passage mouse…”
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Promoter structure and expression of the 155-kDa surface antigen gene of Rickettsia rickettsii by Policastro, P F, Anderson, B E, McDonald, G A

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The dispersion of defective endogenous murine retroviral elements suggests retrotransposition-mediated amplification by Fredholm, M, Policastro, P F, Wilson, M C

“…The dispersion of four replication-defective endogenous proviruses, originally detected in 129 strain mice and shown to have extensive deletions of gag, pol,…”
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