"Borrelia burgdorferi" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A specific species of bacteria, part of the BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP, whose common name is Lyme disease spirochete.
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D025065
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B03.440.425.410.711.193.150.125 B03.851.595.193.150.125
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| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Borrelia burgdorferi" by people in Profiles.
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Kumaresan V, Pahari S, Hung CY, Hermann BP, Schlesinger LS, Seshu J. Role of dual specificity phosphatase 1 in influencing inflammatory pathways in macrophages modulated by Borrelia burgdorferi lipoproteins. Front Immunol. 2026; 17:1766756.
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Shapiro BL, Jaiswal P, Funkhouser-Jones LJ, Roy S, Van Gundy TJ, Bono JM, Lybecker MC, Garcia BL, Hyde JA, Skare JT. The Borreliella burgdorferi BosR-associated small non-coding RNA BasA regulates virulence. Infect Immun. 2026 Apr 15; 94(4):e0002626.
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Kumaresan V, Ingle TM, Kilgore N, Zhang G, Hermann BP, Seshu J. Cellular and transcriptome signatures unveiled by single-cell RNA-Seq following ex vivo infection of murine splenocytes with Borrelia burgdorferi. Front Immunol. 2023; 14:1296580.
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Di L, Akther S, Bezrucenkovas E, Ivanova L, Sulkow B, Wu B, Mneimneh S, Gomes-Solecki M, Qiu WG. Maximum antigen diversification in a lyme bacterial population and evolutionary strategies to overcome pathogen diversity. ISME J. 2022 02; 16(2):447-464.
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Di L, Wan Z, Akther S, Ying C, Larracuente A, Li L, Di C, Nunez R, Cucura DM, Goddard NL, Krampis K, Qiu WG. Genotyping and Quantifying Lyme Pathogen Strains by Deep Sequencing of the Outer Surface Protein C (ospC) Locus. J Clin Microbiol. 2018 11; 56(11).
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Lin YH, Chen Y, Smith TC, Karna SLR, Seshu J. Short-Chain Fatty Acids Alter Metabolic and Virulence Attributes of Borrelia burgdorferi. Infect Immun. 2018 09; 86(9).
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Smith TC, Helm SM, Chen Y, Lin YH, Rajasekhar Karna SL, Seshu J. Borrelia Host Adaptation Protein (BadP) Is Required for the Colonization of a Mammalian Host by the Agent of Lyme Disease. Infect Immun. 2018 07; 86(7).
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Casjens SR, Di L, Akther S, Mongodin EF, Luft BJ, Schutzer SE, Fraser CM, Qiu WG. Primordial origin and diversification of plasmids in Lyme disease agent bacteria. BMC Genomics. 2018 03 27; 19(1):218.
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Seshu J, Smith TC, Lin YH, Karna SLR, Miller CL, Van Laar T. Analysis of DNA and RNA Binding Properties of Borrelia burgdorferi Regulatory Proteins. Methods Mol Biol. 2018; 1690:155-175.
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Stevenson B, Seshu J. Regulation of Gene and Protein Expression in the Lyme Disease Spirochete. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol. 2018; 415:83-112.