Pathological manifestations in murine Lyme disease: Association with tissue invasion and spirochete persistence

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 1 SUPPL., 1997, Pages

  Weis, Janis J ^a   Yang, Liming ^b   Seiler, Kathleen Petri ^b   Silver, Robert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CYTOKINE; LIPOPROTEIN; N(G) METHYLARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHRITIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROCHETE;

EID: 0030788899     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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