Surface exposure and species specificity of an immunoreactive domain of a 66-kilodalton outer membrane protein (P66) of the Borrelia spp. that cause Lyme disease

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 5111-5116

  Bunikis, Jonas ^a,b   Noppa, Laila ^a   Östberg, Yngve ^a   Barbour, Alan G ^b   Bergström, Sven ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0029830332     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.12.5111-5116.1996     Document Type: Article

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