Four clones of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto cause invasive infection in humans

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 3518-3524

  Seinost, Gerald ^a   Dykhuizen, Daniel E ^a   Dattwyler, Raymond J ^a   Golde, William T ^a   Dunn, John J ^b   Wang, Ing Nang ^a   Wormser, Gary P ^c   Schriefer, Martin E ^d   Luft, Benjamin J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA SEQUENCE; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0033004265     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.7.3518-3524.1999     Document Type: Article

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