A new animal model for studying Lyme disease spirochetes in a mammalian host-adapted state

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 101, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2240-2250

  Akins, Darrin R ^a   Bourell, Kenneth W ^a   Caimano, Melissa J ^a   Norgard, Michael V ^a   Radolf, Justin D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Chamber implants; Host adapted; Outer surface protein; Ticks

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EPITOPE; LIPOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN A; PROTEIN OSPC; PROTEIN OSPE; PROTEIN P21; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DIALYSIS MEMBRANE; GENE STRUCTURE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

EID: 0032523936     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI2325     Document Type: Article

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