P55, an immunogenic but nonprotective 55-kilodalton Borrelia burgdorferi protein in murine lyme disease

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 363-365

  Feng, Sunlian ^a   Barthold, Stephen W ^a   Telford III, Sam R ^b   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 ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL VACCINE; FREUND ADJUVANT; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGENICITY; INOCULATION; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TICK;

EID: 0030067801     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.1.363-365.1996     Document Type: Article

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