Association of antibiotic treatment-resistant Lyme arthritis with T cell responses to dominant epitopes of outer surface protein a of Borrelia burgdorferi

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1813-1822

  Chen, Jie ^a   Field, Jodie A ^a   Glickstein, Lisa ^a   Molloy, Philip J ^a   Huber, Brigitte T ^a   Steere, Allen C ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; EPITOPE; GAMMA INTERFERON; HLA DR ANTIGEN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN A;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNOVIAL FLUID; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CHILD; DOXYCYCLINE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033509378     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(199909)42:9<1813::AID-ANR4>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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