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Population dynamics of B. burgdorferi producing OspA and OspC in the tick gut during the blood meal. Infected ticks were allowed to feed on mice for various time periods as described for Fig. 1A. The guts were removed from ticks and the proportion of bacteria displaying each Osp phenotype was determined as described in the text.
