Infection of laboratory mice with the human granulocytic ehrlichiosis agent does not induce antibodies to diagnostically significant Borrelia burgdorferi antigens

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2077-2079

  Bunnell, Joseph E ^a   Magnarelli, Louis A ^b   Dumler, J Stephen ^a,c,d,e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Connecticut Agric Exp Station ^*  (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CROSS REACTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EHRLICHIOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GRANULOCYTOSIS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TICK BITE;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI;

EID: 0032953467     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.6.2077-2079.1999     Document Type: Article

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