Conservation of the 15-kilodalton lipoprotein among Treponema pallidum subspecies and strains and other pathogenic treponemes: Genetic and antigenic analyses

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1440-1444

  Centurion Lara, Arturo ^a   Arroll, Thomas ^a   Castillo, Raphael ^a,c   Shaffer, Jeanne M ^a   Castro, Christa ^a   Van Voorhis, Wesley C ^a   Lukehart, Sheila A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; HOST RESISTANCE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 0030900287     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.4.1440-1444.1997     Document Type: Article

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