Resistance to tick-borne spirochete challenge induced by Borrelia burgdorferi strains that differ in expression of outer surface proteins

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 4148-4153

  Kurtti, Timothy J ^a   Munderloh, Ulrike G ^a   Norton Hughes, Carrie A ^b,c   Engstrom, Suzanne M ^b   Johnson, Russell C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTER; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNOMODULATION; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACCINATION;

EID: 0029838665     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.10.4148-4153.1996     Document Type: Article

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