Demonstration of the genetic stability and temporal expression of select members of the Lyme disease spirochete OspF protein family during infection in mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 4831-4838

  McDowell, J V ^a   Shian Ying Sung, ^a   Price, G ^a   Marconi, R T ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC STABILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYME DISEASE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPIROCHETE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0034918568     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.8.4831-4838.2001     Document Type: Article

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