Heat shock protein 70 of the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis binds to Borrelia burgdorferi antibodies

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 118-120

  Ijdo, Jacob W ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a   Anderson, Matthew L ^a   Goldberg, David ^a   Fikrig, Erol ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

AGED; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031905880     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.5.1.118-120.1998     Document Type: Article

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