An Anaplasma phagocytophilum T4SS effector, AteA, is essential for tick infection
ABSTRACT Pathogens must adapt to disparate environments in permissive host species, a feat that is especially pronounced for vector-borne microbes, which transition between vertebrate hosts and arthropod vectors to complete their lifecycles.Most knowledge about arthropod-vectored bacterial pathogens centers on their life in the mammalian host, wher