Characterization of VspB of Borrelia turicatae, a major outer membrane protein expressed in blood and tissues of mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 4637-4645

  Pennington, Pamela M ^a,b   Cadavid, Diego ^b,c   Barbour, Alan G ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^d NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN VSP A; PROTEIN VSP B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA TURICATAE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCID MOUSE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA HERMSII; BORRELIA TURICATAE;

EID: 0032813474     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.9.4637-4645.1999     Document Type: Article

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