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. 2020 Jun 29;10:10552. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-67440-5

Figure 5.

Figure 5

The effect of clobetasol (DC) application in vivo or incubation of B. afzelii NE4049-infected skin with cortisone (C) in vitro at day 40 of inoculation on the lower back of mice. Infected skins (3 biopsy punches per mouse) were incubated in BSK-H complete medium at 33 °C for 11 and 19 days and: cultured directly for control (infected but non-reactivated mouse), reactivated in vivo by skin application of clobetasol (DC) and cultured, or cultured directly with cortisone included in culture medium. Borreliae were counted by dark-field microscopy using a Petroff-Hausser chamber at two time points.