Stability of erp loci during Borrelia burgdorferi infection: Recombination is not required for chronic infection of immunocompetent mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 3146-3150

  El Hage, Nazira ^a   Lieto, Louis D ^b   Stevenson, Brian ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI;

EID: 0033022539     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.6.3146-3150.1999     Document Type: Article

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