Osp17, a novel immunodominant outer surface protein of Borrelia afzelii; recombinant expression in Escherichia coli and its use as a diagnostic antigen for serodiagnosis of Lyme borreliosis

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 187, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 213-219

  Jauris Heipke, Sigrid ^a   Rößle, Birgit ^b   Wanner, Gerhard ^b   Habermann, Christiane ^a   Rössler, Dieter ^a   Fingerle, Volker ^a   Lehnert, Gisela ^a   Lobentanzer, Ruth ^a   Pradel, Ingrid ^a   Hillenbrand, Bernhard ^a   Schulte Spechtel, Ulrike ^a   Wilske, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Botanisches Inst Ludwig M   (Germany)

Author keywords

Borrelia afzelii; Borrelia burgdorferi; Lyme borreliosis; Osp17; Outer surface protein; Serodiagnosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BORRELIA AFZELII; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BORRELIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

EID: 0032935965     PISSN: 03008584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004300050095     Document Type: Article

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