Duration of immunity to reinfection with tick-transmitted Borrelia burgdorferi in naturally infected mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 4043-4047

  Piesman, Joseph ^a   Dolan, Marc C ^a   Happ, Christine M ^a   Luft, Benjamin J ^b   Rooney, Sean E ^c   Mather, Thomas N ^c   Golde, William T ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFECTION; SPIROCHETE; TICK;

EID: 0030843505     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.10.4043-4047.1997     Document Type: Article

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