BORRELIA RECURRENTIS EMPLOYS A NOVEL MULTIFUNCTIONAL SURFACE PROTEIN WITH ANTI-COMPLEMENT, ANTI-OPSONIC AND INVASIVE POTENTIAL TO ESCAPE INNATE IMMUNITY.

Borrelia recurrentis, the etiologic agent of louse-borne relapsing fever in humans, has evolved strategies, including antigenic variation, to evade immune defence, thereby causing severe diseases with high mortality rates.Here we identify for the first time a multifunctional surface lipoprotein of B.recurrentis, termed HcpA, and demonstrate that it

Realist evaluation methodology aims to understand social programmes by revealing what works, for whom, in what circumstances, and how and why.Realist evaluation starts with generating initial programme theories (IPTs), which are subsequently tested and refined systematically using a multi-methods approach.This article describes a case study of the

The aim of this study was to identify the importance of branded Wall Lights tourism products as a factor in the development of communes located in natural valuable areas of the Lublin voivodeship, and to evaluate the activity of municipal authorities in preparing conditions for the creation of branded tourist products.Branding is expensive, so shap