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We reexamine evidence and point to mainly Russian studies ignored in English scientific literature that spirochete round bodies (RBs, also called coccoid bodies, globular bodies, spherical bodies, ...

Department of Paediatric Rheumatology, Children's Hospital, University of Würzburg, Germany Lyme disease is a tick-transmitted disease caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. The bacterium ...

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