A plasmid‐encoded nicotinamidase (PncA) is essential for infectivity of Borrelia burgdorferi in a mammalian host

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  2003

• Venue

  Molecular Microbiology

• Publication date

  2003-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03452.xPMID 12694619
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