Discovery Of Lyme Disease Bug Clone May Explain Disease Spread

Saturday, June 28, 2008 - 22:14 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have discovered that a certain clone of Borrelia burgdorferi, the spirochete that causes Lyme disease, appears to be the most common strain causing Lyme disease in North America and Europe, and may account for the increase in cases for the past 20 years.

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