Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9122106 | FEMS Microbiology Letters | 2005 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Growth kinetic analyses of Borrelia burgdorferi indicated that this bacterium can utilize a limited number of carbon sources for energy: the monosaccharides glucose, mannose, and N-acetylglucosamine, the disaccharides maltose and chitobiose, and glycerol. All of these carbohydrates are likely to be available to B. burgdorferi during infection of either vertebrate and arthropod hosts, enabling development of a model describing energy sources potentially used by the Lyme borreliosis spirochete during its natural infectious cycle.
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Authors
Kate von Lackum, Brian Stevenson,