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[[Image:Borrelia_Pic.jpeg|thumb|300px|right|A scanning electron micrograph of a cluster Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria. Micrograph taken by Claudia Molins at the CDC in 2011. [http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/details.asp?pid=13176}.]]

Research Question: Why is the bacterium so good at evading the host's immune response? <ref>[http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2012/04/12/jbc.M112.344903.full.pdf+htm]=Troxell, Bryan, Haijun Xu, and Frank Yang. "Borrelia Burgdorferi, a Pathogen That Lacks Iron, Encodes a Manganese-dependent Superoxide Dismutase Essential for Resistance to Streptonigrin." Borrelia Burgdorferi, a Pathogen That Lacks Iron, Encodes a Manganese-dependent Superoxide Dismutase Essential for Resistance to Streptonigrin. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 12 Apr. 2012. Web. 17 Apr. 2016. </ref>

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<br><br>Authored for BIOL 238 Microbiology, taught by [mailto:slonczewski@kenyon.edu Joan Slonczewski], 2016, [http://www.kenyon.edu/index.xml Kenyon College].