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    Monica E. Embers, editor.
    Summary: This book explores the many mechanisms by which the most prevalent Spirochetal pathogens persist in a healthy immune-competent host. Among them are the direct and indirect suppression of host immune signals, phase and antigenic variation, escaping recognition by host complement proteins, and seclusion into immune privileged sites.

    Contents:
    Invasion and Dissemination
    Treponema pallidum Dissemination; Facilitating Immune Evasion and Bacterial Persistence / Simon Houston, Caroline E. Cameron
    Immunoseclusion and Chronic Infection by Borrelia burgdorferi / Robert D. Gilmore Jr.
    Immune Evasion
    Treponema denticola: FhbB, Dentilisin, Complement Evasion and the Paradox of Factor H Cleavage / John V. McDowell, Daniel P. Miller, Katherine L. Mallory
    Borrelial Complement-Binding Proteins / Peter Kraiczy, Reinhard Wallich
    Treponema pallidum Repeat (tpr) Genes and Antigenic Variation / Lorenzo Giacani, Arturo Centurion-Lara
    Antigenic Variation of VlsE in Borrelia burgdorferi / Troy Bankhead
    Modulation of Cytokine Signaling by B. burgdorferi / Vida A. Dennis, Aarti Gautam, Saurabh Dixit
    Leptospira: Invasion, Pathogenesis and Persistence / Syed M. Faisal, Sean P. McDonough, Yung-Fu Chang
    Immune Resistance by Relapsing Fever Spirochetes / Monica E. Embers, Job E. Lopez
    Persistence
    Neuroborreliosis Caused by Borrelia burgdorferi: Possible Role of Glial Cells / Mario T. Philipp, Geeta Ramesh, Geetha Parthasarathy
    Antibiotic Resistance in Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum, the Syphilis Agent / Lola V. Stamm
    Borrelia burgdorferi Persistence Post-antibiotic Treatment / Monica E. Embers, Stephen W. Barthold.
    Digital Access Springer 2012