Genetic variability and stability of Anaplasma phagocytophila msp2 (p44)

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1230-1234

  Caspersen, Karen ^a   Park, Jin Ho ^a   Patil, Surekha ^a   Dumler, J Stephen ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANAPLASMA; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANAPLASMA; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036179486     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.3.1230-1234.2002     Document Type: Article

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