title: The controlled chaos of shifty pathogens.
abstract: Bacterial pathogens use novel mechanisms to vary their surface structures. Three new genome sequences provide a perspective on these mechanisms in Borrelia burgdorferi, Neisseria meningitidis, and Campylobacter jejuni, which cause lyme disease, meningitis and gastroenteritis, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA. dfaguy@unm.edu
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Faguy
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000940:Antigenic Variation; D001483:Base Sequence; D015748:Borrelia burgdorferi Group / Q000235:genetics; D016123:Campylobacter jejuni / Q000235:genetics; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D014644:Genetic Variation; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009345:Neisseria meningitidis / Q000235:genetics; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial