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Essay Galaxy - Lime Disease
Lime Disease
Lyme disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, which is a tick-borne spirochete.
The dangers of this disease became more publicised in 1977, where a geographic
grouping of children in Lyme, Conneticut were thought to have juvenile rheumatoid
arthritis1. Soon after, it was discovered that lyme disease was an illness that mainly
affects the skin, nervous system, heart, and joints. The borrelia species is part of the
eubacterial phylum of spirochetes. Containted within a protoplasmic cylinder is a cell
membrane, followed by wavy flagella, and then an outer membrane. The genes
encoded within the outer membrane are located on plasmids which allows the organism
to make antigenic changes in these proteins. When a borrelia cell attaches to its host,
the whole outer membrane moves to one e....
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