Borrelia burgdorferi erpT expression in the arthropod vector and murine host

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 281-290

  Fikrig, Erol ^a   Chen, Manchuan ^a   Barthold, Stephen W ^b   Anguita, Juan ^a   Feng, Wen ^a   Telford III, Sam R ^c   Flavell, Richard A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FEMALE; HEART; HOST; IMMUNIZATION; JOINT; LIFE CYCLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN; SPIROCHETE; SPLEEN; TICK;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; TICKS;

EID: 0032948515     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01171.x     Document Type: Article

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