Conversion of Borrelia garinii cystic forms to motile spirochetes in vivo

APMIS

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 383-388

  Gruntar, Igor ^a   Malovrh, Tadej ^b   Murgia, Rossella ^c   Cinco, Marina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b Medical Faculty   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Borrelia; Cystic forms; Infectivity; Lyme borreliosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIFE CYCLE; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPHEROPLAST; SPIROCHETE;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII;

EID: 0034941031     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0463.2001.090507.x     Document Type: Article

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