The Borrelia burgdorferi 37-kilodalton immunoblot band (P37) used in serodiagnosis of early Lyme disease is the flaA gene product

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 548-552

  Gilmore Jr , Robert D ^a,b   Murphree, Rendi L ^a   James, Angela M ^a   Sullivan, Sarah A ^a   Johnson, Barbara J B ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0344267655     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.3.548-552.1999     Document Type: Article

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