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Photo by Janice Haney Carr, ID# 13175, ©2011 / CDC Public Health Image Library (PHIL)

This digitally-colorized scanning electron micrograph depicts a grouping of numerous Gram-negative, anaerobic, Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria, responsible for causing Lyme disease, transmitted through the bite of infected blacklegged ticks.