If a bacterium has motility, it will use the ability to survive and thrive. For many pathogenic species, their motilities are a crucial virulence factor. The form of motility varies among the species.

Spirochete motility is enigmatic: It differs from the motility of most other bacteria in that the entire bacterium is involved in translocation in the absence of external appendages. Using the Lyme ...

Spirochetes have a unique motility system that is characterized by flagellar filaments contained within the outer membrane sheath. Direct evidence using video microscopy has recently been obtained ...

In the original article, there was a mistake in Supplementary Table S1 as published. In the original version, “TATCGATACCGTCGATCACTTGTACAGCTCATCCATG” was shown as ...

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When Chunhao (Chris) Li joined the faculty in the Department of Oral Biology, School of Dental Medicine, in 2005, he put UB on the map of research hotspots in the effort to better understand ...

Recebido para publicação, após modificações, em 3 de outubro de 1999. Specific pathogen free (SPF) chickens (SPAFAS/Resende, Uberlândia, MG, Brazil), 20 to 30 week-old were used and fed with ...

Researchers have identified a new way to fight infections like Lyme disease and syphilis by disrupting the bacteria’s "motor", preventing it from spreading through the body. The findings could have ...