collecte section Bourgogne

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Borrelia burgdorferi s. l. complex Lyme disease spirochetes are microbes that successfully suppress and evade the human immune system. Therefore, they cause persistent infections with immune-related long-term sequelae.

Borrelia burgdorferi s. l. complex Lyme disease spirochetes are microbes that 

successfully suppress and evade the human immune system. Therefore, they 

cause persistent infections with immune-related long-term sequelae. 


Also confirmation of Sapi's finding on biofilm..

Neither strain died in the experiment. We observed a form of biofilm-formation 

of large Borrelia burgdorferi bundles (see cover; unpublished), which likely 

served to protect Borrelia bacteria from complement. This may be analogous 

to attack of the complement system on tumors, where the outer cell-layers are 

attacked, but the inner layers protected (128). This mechanism has also been 

documented elsewhere (76). MMPs (68, 75, 129) enable the spirochetes to 

invade tissues and when they are able to grow into a larger population, they 

may be able to shield each other by forming a form of biofilm. Because there 

was a very large amount of bacteria, the majority of the cells were not 

attacked. In a physiological sense this may partially explain the difficulty in treating persistent long-term infections.