Borrelia burgdorferi OspA is an arthropod-specific transmission-blocking Lyme disease vaccine

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 271-275

  De Silva, Aravinda M ^a   Telford III, Sam R ^b   Brunet, Laura Rosa ^b   Barthold, Stephen W ^a   Fikrig, Erol ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VACCINE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN A;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFECTION PREVENTION; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; ARACHNID VECTORS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOTHERAPY, ADOPTIVE; IXODES; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; SALIVARY GLANDS;

EID: 0030025949     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.183.1.271     Document Type: Article

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