An OspC-specific monoclonal antibody passively protects mice from tick- transmitted infection by Borrelia burgdorferi B31

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 5470-5472

  Mbow, M Lamine ^a   Gilmore Jr , Robert D ^b   Titus, Richard G ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; EPITOPE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN C;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INFESTATION; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; TICK;

EID: 0032858041     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.10.5470-5472.1999     Document Type: Article

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