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SUBMITTER: Palomar AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6446187 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Palomar Ana M AM Premchand-Branker Shonnette S Alberdi Pilar P Belova Oxana A OA Moniuszko-Malinowska Anna A Kahl Olaf O Bell-Sakyi Lesley L
Ticks and tick-borne diseases 20190219 3
Ticks harbour and, in many cases transmit to their vertebrate hosts, a wide variety of pathogenic, apathogenic and endosymbiotic microorganisms. Recent molecular analyses have greatly increased the range of bacterial species potentially associated with ticks, but in most cases cannot distinguish between surface contaminants, microorganisms present in the remains of the previous blood meal and truly intracellular or tissue-associated bacteria. Here we demonstrate how tick cell lines, primary cell ...[more]