Borrelia burgdorferi gene expression in vivo and spirochete pathogenicity

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1222-1230

  Anguita, Juan ^a   Samanta, Swapna ^a   Revilla, Beatriz ^a   Suk, Kyoungho ^a,c   Das, Subrata ^a   Barthold, Stephen W ^b   Fikrig, Erol ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Samsung Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; GENE EXPRESSION; LIPOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, SCID; MYOCARDITIS;

EID: 0033952598     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.3.1222-1230.2000     Document Type: Article

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