Correlation of plasmids with infectivity of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto type strain B31

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 3870-3876

  Xu, Yaning ^a   Kodner, Carrie ^a   Coleman, Lisa ^a   Johnson, Russell C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

EID: 0029779949     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.9.3870-3876.1996     Document Type: Article

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