1. Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Tennessee, USA
2. Department of Microbiology/Immunology, New York Medical College, New York, USA
3. New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA
4. Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
5. Molecular and Translational Sciences, US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA
6. Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, USA
7. Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
8. Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Amsterdam Multidisciplinary Lyme Borreliosis Center, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Academic Medical Center, The Netherlands
9. Department of Veterinary Sciences, Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA
10. Valneva Austria GmbH, Vienna, Austria
11. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia, USA
12. Lyme Disease Studies Unit, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
13. Imugen, Norwood, Massachusetts, USA
14. Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
15. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Maryland, USA
16. Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
17. College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
18. Laboratory of Bacteriology, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, USA
19. Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health, Tufts University, North Grafton, Massachusetts, USA
20. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
21. Departments of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
22. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University of School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
23. Department of Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA