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- who: Philip E. Stewart from the Laboratory have published the research: Kinetics of tick infection by the relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia hermsii acquired through artificial membrane feeding chambers, in the Journal: Scientific Reports Scientific Reports
SUMMARY
The optimized artificial feeding system (Fig 1) consists of a polycarbonate tube (approximately 2.5 cm inner diameter, and 4.5 cm tall) with Parafilm M stretched tightly across the bottom to act as a feeding membrane and mosquito netting covering the top of the chamber to confine the ticks. Interestingly, B. hermsii densities within ticks were . . .
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