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Mar 18, 2019
1 min

Message in a Vesicle – Trans-kingdom Intercommunication

Joao H. F. Pedra of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and his team published a new review paper that briefly discusses exosom...

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Role of Mannose Binding Lectin in the Immune Response against Borrelia

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Feb 5, 2019
2 min

Role of Mannose Binding Lectin in the Immune Response against Borrelia

Erol Fikrig and team at the Yale University School of Medicine published a new paper examining the role of Mannose Binding Lectin (MBL) i...

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Mutational Analysis of Gene function in the Anaplasmataceae

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Feb 1, 2019
1 min

Mutational Analysis of Gene function in the Anaplasmataceae

Ulrike Munderloh and team at the University of Minnesota published a new paper on mutational analysis of gene function. Mutational analys...

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Borrelia Protein Interactions Critical for Persistence in Mammals

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Feb 1, 2019
1 min

Borrelia Protein Interactions Critical for Persistence in Mammals

Utpal Pal and team at the University of Maryland, College Park published a review on the interactions between Borrelia burgdorferi protei...

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Activation of the Immune Deficiency Pathway in Black-legged Ticks

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Jan 2, 2019
2 min

Activation of the Immune Deficiency Pathway in Black-legged Ticks

Researchers identify the molecule p47 as a binding partner that induces a signaling cascade to limit microbial infection Researchers at t...

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Characterization of Tick OATPs on Bacterial and Viral Infections

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Nov 14, 2018
1 min

Characterization of Tick OATPs on Bacterial and Viral Infections

Utpal Pal and his team at the University of Maryland, College Park, published a new paper characterizing the roles of Ixodes scapularis ...

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Vector Immunity and Evolutionary Ecology: The Harmonious Dissonance

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Nov 1, 2018
2 min

Vector Immunity and Evolutionary Ecology: The Harmonious Dissonance

How evolution has shaped vector immunity, calling for immunologists and evolutionary ecologists to work together to tackle some of these ...

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Identification of Lyme Borreliae Proteins Promoting Survival in Ixodes Nymphs

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Jul 1, 2018
2 min

Identification of Lyme Borreliae Proteins Promoting Survival in Ixodes Nymphs

Utpal Pal and team at the University of Maryland, College Park, published a new paper identifying proteins that affect survival of Borrel...

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Visualization of Microbiota in Tick Guts by Whole-mount In Situ Hybridization

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Jun 1, 2018
2 min

Visualization of Microbiota in Tick Guts by Whole-mount In Situ Hybridization

Erol Fikrig and team from the Yale University School of Medicine have published a method to visualize the microbiota in tick guts using w...

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Host-Specific Expression of Tick Salivary Genes

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Jun 1, 2018
2 min

Host-Specific Expression of Tick Salivary Genes

Findings provide new insight into vector-host interactions and offer a functional paradigm to better understand the phenomenon of acquire...

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Ixodes Immune Responses Against Lyme Disease Pathogens

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May 29, 2018
2 min

Ixodes Immune Responses Against Lyme Disease Pathogens

Utpal Pal and team at the University of Maryland, College Park, published a new review of recent studies in immune response against Lyme ...

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Borrelia Surface Protein Processed into Peptides for Microbial Persistence

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May 10, 2018
1 min

Borrelia Surface Protein Processed into Peptides for Microbial Persistence

Utpal Pal and team at the University of Maryland, College Park, published a new paper highlighting a newly discovered mechanism for Borre...

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Protein Used to Outsmart the Human Immune System

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Apr 3, 2018
3 min

Protein Used to Outsmart the Human Immune System

Findings have major implications for tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease A UMD researcher has uncovered a mechanism by which the bacte...

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Methods in Microbiology: Artificial Infection of Ticks with Borrelia

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Oct 15, 2017
1 min

Methods in Microbiology: Artificial Infection of Ticks with Borrelia

Utpal Pal of the University of Maryland, College Park, edited a book in the Methods in Microbiology series on Borrelia burgdorferi Method...

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