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. 2022 Oct 26;13(5):e0216922.
doi: 10.1128/mbio.02169-22. Epub 2022 Aug 22.

Reply to Luger, "Why Is It So Hard to Find Persistent Borreliella burgdorferi?"

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Reply to Luger, "Why Is It So Hard to Find Persistent Borreliella burgdorferi?"

Felipe C Cabello et al. mBio. .
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Keywords: Borreliella burgdorferi; Lyme disease; antimicrobial tolerance; bacterial persistence; persistence; post-Lyme disease syndromes; posttreatment syndromes.

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