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Re-infection with different B. burgdorferi strain can cause a super-infection in mice

Numerous strains of Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, can exist in hosts living within the same geographic area, writes Bhatia, from Rocky Mountain Laboratories, in the journal PLOS Pathogens. [1] “Many different strains of B. burgdorferi are stably maintained in the same local population of infected wild animals and ticks.”