Spirochetes alter their major surface proteins in response to the temperature change that accompanies their passage from tick vector to mammalian host.
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Barbour, A. Spirochetes come in from the cold. Nat Med 4, 890–891 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0898-890
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