Characterization of Lyme disease spirochetes isolated from ticks and vertebrates in North Carolina

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 48-55

  Ryan, Jeffrey R ^a,b   Apperson, Charles S ^a   Orndorff, Paul E ^a   Levine, Jay F ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Isolate characterization; Lyme disease; Ticks; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

ACARI; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; MUS MUSCULUS; MUSCULUS; ORYZOMYS PALUSTRIS; SPIROCHAETALES; VERTEBRATA;

BACTERIAL DNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DOG; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LIZARD; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMID; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RABBIT; RACCOON; RODENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK; UNITED STATES; VERTEBRATE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ARACHNID VECTORS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CHICKENS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOGS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; LIZARDS; NORTH CAROLINA; PLASMIDS; RABBITS; RACCOONS; RODENTIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TICKS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0039923501     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-36.1.48     Document Type: Article

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