Direct demonstration of antigenic substitution of Borrelia burgdorferi ex vivo: Exploration of the paradox of the early immune response to outer surface proteins A and C in Lyme disease

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 261-269

  Montgomery, Ruth R ^a   Malawista, Stephen E ^a   Feen, Kevin J M ^a   Bockenstedt, Linda K ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN A; PROTEIN C;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; FEMALE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODY FORMATION; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERITONEAL CAVITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

EID: 0030048119     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.183.1.261     Document Type: Article

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