Antigenic variation in Lyme disease borreliae by promiscuous recombination of VMP-like sequence cassettes

Cell

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 275-285

  Zhang, Jing Ren ^a   Hardham, John M ^a   Barbour, Alan G ^b   Norris, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE CASSETTE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; MAMMALIA; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 0030904280     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80206-8     Document Type: Article

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