Lyme arthritis resolution with antiserum to a 37-kilodalton Borrelia burgdorferi protein

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 4169-4173

  Feng, Sunlian ^a   Hodzic, Emir ^a   Barthold, Stephen W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCID MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, SCID; MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

EID: 0033946033     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.7.4169-4173.2000     Document Type: Article

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