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The authors analyzed various methods to efficiently and accurately count live and dead Borrelia burgdorferi in lab culture. This is important for calculating the efficacy of antibiotics in the killing of bacteria. They adapted a method that stains live bacteria green, and dead ones red, allowing simple, reproducible, and high-throughput means to count bacteria.