Genetic and immunological analyses of Vls (VMP-like sequences) of Borrelia burgdorferi

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 155-166

  Kawabata, Hiroki ^a   Myouga, Fumiyoshi ^a   Inagaki, Yoshishige ^a   Murai, Noriyuki ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

B. hermsii; Borrelia burgdorferi; Lyme disease; OspC; Vls; Vmp

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA HERMSII; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031884299     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpat.1997.0183     Document Type: Article

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