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This photomicrograph depicts a close view of a Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium, which is the cause Lyme disease. Deer ticks of the genus, Ixodes, frequently carry this spiral shaped bacterium. When the deer tick bites a human being, the bacteria are transmitted to the human bloodstream.
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