• Potential Target for Treating and Diagnosing Lyme Disease Discovered

  • Dec 12 2021
  • Length: 3 mins
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Potential Target for Treating and Diagnosing Lyme Disease Discovered

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  • Virginia Tech researchers discovered that the bacterium that causes Lyme disease has a highly unusual modification in its protective molecular bag – called peptidoglycan, which is common to all bacteria. There occurs an unusual sugar modification that is not known to occur in any organism. One way the bacterium gets this sugar modification is from ticks by absorbing a carbohydrate unique to ticks. The alteration is specific to ticks and allows the bacterium to better move and be more likely to cause disease.
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