Antibodies to ospB prevent infection of C3H mice challenged with Borrelia burgdorferi isolates expressing truncated OspB antigens

Vaccine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-19

  Probert, William Scott ^a   Crawford, Melissa ^a   LeFebvre, Rance B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; outer surface protein; vaccine

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VACCINE; EPITOPE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACCINATION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0031027776     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(96)00123-5     Document Type: Article

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