Identification of candidate T-cell epitopes and molecular mimics in chronic Lyme disease

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1375-1382

  Hemmer, Bernhard ^a,e   Gran, Bruno ^a   Zhao, Yingdong ^b   Marques, Adriana ^c   Pascal, Jeannick ^d   Tzou, Abraham ^a   Kondo, Takayuki ^a   Cortese, Irene ^a   Bielekova, Bibiana ^a   Straus, Stephen E ^c   Mcfarland, Henry F ^a   Houghten, Richard ^d   Simon, Richard ^b   Pinilla, Clemencia ^d   Martin, Roland ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d TORREY PINES INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR STUDIES   (United States)

^e PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EPITOPE;

ADULT; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; AUTOANTIGENS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CLONE CELLS; EPITOPES; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; LYME DISEASE; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0032728738     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/70946     Document Type: Article

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