Borrelia recurrentis Employs a Novel Multifunctional Surface Protein with Anti-Complement, Anti-Opsonic and Invasive Potential to Escape Innate Immunity

• Sonja Grosskinsky,

  Affiliation Infectious Immunology, Institute for Immunology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Melanie Schott,

  Affiliation Infectious Immunology, Institute for Immunology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Christiane Brenner,

  Affiliation Infectious Immunology, Institute for Immunology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Sally J. Cutler,

  Affiliation School of Health and Bioscience, University of East London, Stratford, London, United Kingdom

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• Peter Kraiczy,

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

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• Peter F. Zipfel,

  Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Leibniz-Institute for Natural Products Research, Jena, Germany

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• Markus M. Simon,

  Affiliation Metschnikoff Laboratory, Max-Planck-Institute for Immunobiology, Freiburg, Germany

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• Reinhard Wallich

  * E-mail: wallich@uni-hd.de

  Affiliation Infectious Immunology, Institute for Immunology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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