tick-borne disease
Environmental MicrobiologyMaternal Antibodies Provide Bank Voles with Strain-Specific Protection against Infection by the Lyme Disease PathogenMany microbial pathogen populations consist of multiple strains that induce strain-specific antibody responses in their vertebrate hosts. Females can transmit these antibodies to their offspring, thereby providing them with short-term strain-specific protection against microbial pathogens. We investigated this phenomenon using multiple strains of the tick-borne microbial pathogen...