Outer surface protein C (OspC), but not P39, is a protective immunogen against a tick-transmitted Borrelia burgdorferi challenge: Evidence for a conformational protective epitope in OspC

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2234-2239

  Gilmore Jr , Robert D ^a,b   Kappel, Kimberly J ^a   Dolan, Marc C ^a   Burkot, Thomas R ^a   Johnson, Barbara J B ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN C; PROTEIN P39; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; TICK BITE;

EID: 0029948977     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.6.2234-2239.1996     Document Type: Article

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