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The experiment adds to previous work showing borrelia spirochaete invasion of erythrocytes(1). It provides video evidence that the spirochaetes continue their development within the cell.
Materials and methods
The medium to hold blood cells stable on a microscope slide mini-culture was prepared as:
You can listen here at https://www.630ched.com/audio-vault/ Select May 25th, 9 am, then drag the scroll bar to 8:55 for the beginning of the Lyme talk.
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