Antibody responses in patients with Lyme arthritis
... To gain insights into the survival of spirochetes following antibiotic therapy, researchers at the ... Lyme arthritis after the disease-spreading spirochetes have been killed. ... have the nearly complete or total eradication of spirochetes from the joint as a result of antibiotic therapy, ...Tiny details in three dimensions
... Dr. Frischknecht. The bacteria have developed many strategies to avoid the immune response of humans. Borrelias, like the syphilis pathogens, are spirochetes bacteria. The spiral-shaped, actively motile bacteria have flexible, pliable bodies that are moved with the aid of complex organs, flagella. A ...