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Perspective | Host-Microbe Biology

Discovery of the Lyme Disease Agent

Alan G. Barbour, Jorge L. Benach
Arturo Casadevall, Editor
Alan G. Barbour
aDepartment of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
bDepartment of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
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cDepartment of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
dDepartment of Pathology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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DOI: 10.1128/mBio.02166-19
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02166-19
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31530679

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  • Published online September 17, 2019.

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Copyright © 2019 Barbour and Benach. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
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  • Arturo Casadevall, Editor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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  1. Alan G. Barboura,b,
  2. Jorge L. Benachc,d
  1. aDepartment of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
  2. bDepartment of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
  3. cDepartment of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
  4. dDepartment of Pathology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
  • Address correspondence to Alan G. Barbour, abarbour{at}uci.edu, or Jorge L. Benach, Jorge.benach{at}stonybrook.edu.
  • Citation Barbour AG, Benach JL. 2019. Discovery of the Lyme disease agent. mBio 10:e02166-19. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02166-19.

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