Maternal antibodies provide strain-specific protection against infection with the Lyme disease pathogen in a wild rodent
A. Gomez-Chamorro, V. Heinrich, A. Sarr, O. Roethlisberger, D. Genne, M. Jacquet, M. J. Voordouw
This study shows that maternal antibodies from infected bank voles protect offspring against the same strain of Borrelia afzelii but not a different strain.
bioRxiv · Jan 16, 2019Immunology