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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Microbiol. 2009 Nov 2;74(6):1331–1343. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06945.x

Table 1.

Infectivity of B. burgdorferi B31 clones in mice.a

Strain, clone Description Dose No. of cultures positive / total No. of specimens examined No. of mice infected / total No. of mice
Heart Joint Skin All sites
B31 wild type B. burgdorferi 104 6/6 6/6 6/6 18/18 6/6
OY10/D12 B31, bosR−b 107 0/4 0/4 0/4 0/12 0/4
OY10/H3 B31, bosR− 107 0/7 0/7 0/7 0/21 0/7
OY34/E6 OY10/D12 with pOY83, bosR−/+b 104 3/3 3/3 3/3 9/9 3/3
OY34/C4 OY10/H3 with pOY83, bosR−/+ 104 3/3 3/3 3/3 9/9 3/3
a

Data were collected from two independent experiments.

b

bosR−: bosR mutant; bosR−/+, bosR complemented strain.