Could slowing down the swimming speed of the Lyme disease spirochete help treatment?
by Daniel J. Cameron, MD MPH The Lyme disease bacterium swims in an undulating pattern throughout the body. “The flagella reside within the periplasm, the space between the bacterial cell wall and the outer membrane,” according to Harman, from the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona. [1] “Rotation of the flagella within […]