Purification and characterization of Borrelia burgdorferi from feeding nymphal ticks (ixodes scapularis)

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 3536-3541

  Rathinavelu, S ^a   De Silva, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; FEEDING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMOGENATE; IXODES SCAPULARIS; MEASUREMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; TICK;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; CULTURE MEDIA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; IXODES; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME DISEASE; LYME DISEASE VACCINES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H;

EID: 0034986752     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.6.3536-3541.2001     Document Type: Article

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