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List of works by Sandra J Raffel

A novel surface antigen of relapsing fever spirochetes can discriminate between relapsing fever and Lyme borreliosis

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A system for site-specific genetic manipulation of the relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia hermsii

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Antigenic variation by Borrelia hermsii occurs through recombination between extragenic repetitive elements on linear plasmids

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Bloodmeal Size and Spirochete Acquisition of Ornithodoros hermsi (Acari: Argasidae) During Feeding

scientific article published on November 1, 2010

Borrelia hermsii Acquisition Order in Superinfected Ticks Determines Transmission Efficiency

scientific article published on May 28, 2013

Characterization of a novel relapsing fever spirochete in the midgut, coxal fluid, and salivary glands of the bat tick Carios kelleyi

scientific article published on December 2009

Colony formation in solid medium by the relapsing fever spirochetes Borrelia hermsii and Borrelia turicatae

scientific article published on 12 November 2017

Correlation of acetate catabolism and growth yield in Staphylococcus aureus: implications for host-pathogen interactions

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Cotransmission of divergent relapsing fever spirochetes by artificially infected Ornithodoros hermsi

scientific article published on 30 September 2011

Detection of Lassa virus, Mali

scientific article published in July 2010

Development of genetic system to inactivate a Borrelia turicatae surface protein selectively produced within the salivary glands of the arthropod vector

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Diversity and distribution of Borrelia hermsii

scientific article published on March 2007

Endemic foci of the tick-borne relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia crocidurae in Mali, West Africa, and the potential for human infection

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First isolation of the relapsing fever spirochete, Borrelia hermsii, from a domestic dog.

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Global Profiling of Lysine Acetylation in B31 Reveals Its Role in Central Metabolism

scientific article published on 31 August 2018

Glycerol-3-phosphate acquisition in spirochetes: distribution and biological activity of glycerophosphodiester phosphodiesterase (GlpQ) among Borrelia species

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Glycerophosphodiester phosphodiesterase gene (glpQ) of Borrelia lonestari identified as a target for differentiating Borrelia species associated with hard ticks (Acari:Ixodidae).

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Host associations and genomic diversity of Borrelia hermsii in an endemic focus of tick-borne relapsing fever in western North America

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Identical strains of Borrelia hermsii in mammal and bird

scientific article published on December 2009

Identification of conserved antigens for early serodiagnosis of relapsing fever Borrelia

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Inactivation of genes for antigenic variation in the relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia hermsii reduces infectivity in mice and transmission by ticks

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Large Linear Plasmids of Borrelia Species That Cause Relapsing Fever

scientific article published on 07 June 2013

Novel relapsing fever spirochete in bat tick

scientific article published in March 2008

Periplasmic flagellar export apparatus protein, FliH, is involved in post-transcriptional regulation of FlaB, motility and virulence of the relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia hermsii

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Phylogenetic analysis of the spirochetes Borrelia parkeri and Borrelia turicatae and the potential for tick-borne relapsing fever in Florida

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Purine salvage pathways among Borrelia species

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Relapsing fever spirochaetes produce a serine protease that provides resistance to oxidative stress and killing by neutrophils.

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Relapsing fever spirochetes contain chromosomal genes with unique direct tandemly repeated sequences

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Relapsing fever spirochetes retain infectivity after prolonged in vitro cultivation

scientific article published on December 2008

The arginine deaminase system plays distinct roles in Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia hermsii

scientific article published in 2022

Tick-borne relapsing fever and Borrelia hermsii, Los Angeles County, California, USA

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Tickborne relapsing fever, Bitterroot Valley, Montana, USA

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Transcriptional Profiling the 150 kb Linear Megaplasmid of Borrelia turicatae Suggests a Role in Vector Colonization and Initiating Mammalian Infection

scientific article published on 4 February 2016

Transgenic functional complementation with a transmission -associated protein restores spirochete infectivity by tick bite

scientific article published on 20 January 2020

Vaccination with the variable tick protein of the relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia hermsii protects mice from infection by tick-bite

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Variable tick protein in two genomic groups of the relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia hermsii in western North America

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