Genes outside the major histocompatibility complex control resistance and susceptibility to experimental Lyme arthritis

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 85-90

  Brown, Charles R ^a   Reiner, Steven L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthritis; Borrelia burgdorferi; Lyme borreliosis; MHC restriction; Pathology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONGENIC STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; HAPLOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX RESTRICTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; H-2 ANTIGENS; HAPLOTYPES; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-4; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED DBA;

EID: 0033663413     PISSN: 03008584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004300000044     Document Type: Article

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