Antigenic composition of Borrelia burgdorferi during infection of SCID mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3419-3428

  Crother, Timothy R ^a   Champion, Cheryl I ^a   Wu, Xiao Yang ^a   Blanco, David R ^a   Miller, James N ^a   Lovett, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BINDING PROTEIN; DECORIN; DETERGENT; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN A; PROTEIN OSPB; TRITON X 114; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACTION; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SCID MOUSE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CARRIER PROTEINS; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, SCID; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0038781754     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.6.3419-3428.2003     Document Type: Article

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