The spirochetes that cause Lyme disease have an elaborate antigenic variation system that produces millions of variants, thus evading the immune response. Verhey et al. have applied next-generation sequencing and computational analysis to gain new insights into how these bacteria keep 'one step ahead' of elimination by the host. Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Journal: Trends in microbiology
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2018.05.017
Year: 2018