Temporal Analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi Erp Protein Expression throughout the Mammal-Tick Infectious Cycle

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 6943-6952

  Miller, Jennifer C ^a   Von Lackum, Kate ^a   Babb, Kelly ^a   McAlister, Jason D ^a   Stevenson, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PROTEIN ERP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; HOST; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LARVA; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TICK;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; IXODES; LARVA; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NYMPH; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 0345714742     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.12.6943-6952.2003     Document Type: Article

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