title: Carbohydrate utilization by the Lyme borreliosis spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi.
abstract: Growth kinetic analyses of Borrelia burgdorferi indicated that this bacterium can utilize a limited number of carbon sources for energy: the monosaccharides glucose, mannose, and N-acetylglucosamine, the disaccharides maltose and chitobiose, and glycerol. All of these carbohydrates are likely to be available to B. burgdorferi during infection of either vertebrate and arthropod hosts, enabling development of a model describing energy sources potentially used by the Lyme borreliosis spirochete during its natural infectious cycle.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0298, USA.
authors.forename: Kate
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: von Lackum
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Stevenson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D025065:Borrelia burgdorferi / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000378:metabolism*; D050260:Carbohydrate Metabolism; D003470:Culture Media; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D008193:Lyme Disease / Q000382:microbiology
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media