Disease severity in a murine model of Lyme borreliosis is associated with the genotype of the infecting Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto strain

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 186, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 782-791

  Wang, Guiqing ^a   Ojaimi, Caroline ^a   Wu, Hongyan ^a   Saksenberg, Victoria ^c   Iyer, Radha ^a   Liveris, Dionysios ^a   Mc Clain, Steve A ^c   Wormser, Gary P ^b   Schwartz, Ira ^a,b  

^a Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPIROCHETE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TARGET ORGAN;

ANIMALS; ANKLE; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENOTYPE; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MYOCARDITIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TIME FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0037105636     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/343043     Document Type: Article

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