Surface Antigens of the Syphilis Spirochete and Their Potential as Virulence Determinants

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-20

  Blanco, David R ^a   Miller, James N ^a   Lovett, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PORIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TROMP1 PROTEIN, TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TROMP2 PROTEIN, TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ANIMAL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FREEZE FRACTURE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOGENICITY; RABBIT; REVIEW; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FREEZE FRACTURING; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PORINS; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0030623998     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0301.970102     Document Type: Article

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