{"id":87649,"date":"2013-12-23T14:56:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T19:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=87649"},"modified":"2013-12-31T14:34:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T19:34:17","slug":"health-center-lab-helps-advance-understanding-of-lyme-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2013\/12\/health-center-lab-helps-advance-understanding-of-lyme-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Center Lab Helps Advance Lyme Disease Understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_87652\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87652\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo_radolf1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87652 img-responsive lazyload\" alt=\"photo_radolf[1]\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo_radolf1.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"125\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo_radolf1.jpg 100w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo_radolf1-80x100.jpg 80w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 100px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 100\/125;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Justin Radolf<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure id=\"attachment_87650\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87650\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo_caimano1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87650 img-responsive lazyload\" alt=\"photo_caimano[1]\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo_caimano1.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"125\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo_caimano1.jpg 100w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo_caimano1-80x100.jpg 80w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 100px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 100\/125;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa Caimano<\/figcaption><\/figure><a href=\"http:\/\/spirocheteresearch.uchc.edu\/labsfaculty\/lab_radolf.html#radolf\">Dr. Justin Radolf<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/spirocheteresearch.uchc.edu\/labsfaculty\/lab_radolf.html#caimano\">Melissa Caimano<\/a> from the UConn Health Center\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/spirocheteresearch.uchc.edu\/index.html\">Spirochete Research Labs<\/a> have contributed to research identifying an essential factor for transmission of Lyme disease from ticks to mammals.<\/p>\n<p>Working with researchers from the University of Calgary, the Radolf Lab helped analyze a protein in the bacterium that causes Lyme disease known as HrpA, and concluded that it is involved in the bacterium\u2019s life cycle in both animal infection and tick transmission.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in the journal <i>PLOS Pathogens<\/i>, is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/LymePLOS13\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/LymePLOS13<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr align=\"left\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"1\" width=\"640\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><i>Follow the <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchc.edu\/\"><i>UConn Health Center<\/i><\/a><i> on <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uconnhealthcenter\"><i>Facebook<\/i><\/a><i>, <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uconnhealth\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i> and <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/uconnhealth\"><i>YouTube<\/i><\/a><i>. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Justin Radolf and Melissa Caimano joined Canadian researchers to identify an essential factor for Lyme disease transmission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":37908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[57,2010],"class_list":["post-87649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-12 11:52:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87649"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87861,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87649\/revisions\/87861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/37908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87649"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=87649"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=87649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}