How ‘stealth warrior’ bacteria turn a tick’s gut microbes against itself

"Before infecting humans, tick-borne bacteria or viruses first have to get past a tick’s defenses to colonize it." How do they do that?

How ‘stealth warrior’ bacteria turn a tick’s gut microbes against itself

Before infecting humans, tick-borne bacteria or viruses first have to get past a tick’s defenses to colonize it. How this occurs is not well understood. To investigate, Yale…

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