The relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia hermsii contains multiple, antigen-encoding circular plasmids that are homologous to the cp32 plasmids of Lyme disease spirochetes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 3900-3908

  Stevenson, Brian ^a,c   Porcella, Stephen F ^b   Oie, Katrina L ^b,d   Fitzpatrick, Cecily A ^b   Raffel, Sandra J ^b   Lubke, Lori ^b   Schrumpf, Merry E ^b   Schwan, Tom G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; HEMOLYSIN;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA HERMSII; BORRELIA INFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DNA PROBES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033919431     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.7.3900-3908.2000     Document Type: Article

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