Borrelia burgdorferi strain-specific Osp C-mediated immunity in mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 4661-4667

  Bockenstedt, Linda K ^a   Hodzic, Emir ^a   Feng, Sunlian ^a   Bourrel, Ken W ^b   De Silva, Aravinda ^a   Montgomery, Ruth R ^a   Fikrig, Erol ^a   Radolf, Justin D ^b   Barthold, Stephen W ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; BACTERIUM OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN C ANTIBODY; HYPERIMMUNE GLOBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INFECTION PREVENTION; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030832979     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.11.4661-4667.1997     Document Type: Article

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