Temporal pattern of Borrelia burgdorferi p21 expression in ticks and the mammalian host

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 987-995

  Das, Subrata ^a   Barthold, Stephen W ^a   Giles, Susan Stocker ^a   Montgomery, Ruth R ^a   Telford III, Sam R ^b   Fikrig, Erol ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

arthritis; Lyme disease; ospE; spirochete; ticks

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; PROTEIN P21; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IXODES DAMMINI; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TICK;

EID: 0030937348     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI119264     Document Type: Article

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