Borrelia burgdorferi possesses a collagenolytic activity

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 39-45

  Grab, Dennis J ^a,b   Kennedy, Richard ^a   Philipp, Mario T ^a  

^a TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; collagenolysis; Lyme disease

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COLLAGEN DEGRADATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 0030588118     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00335-7     Document Type: Article

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