Bacteriolytic Activity of Selected Vertebrate Sera for Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Stricto and Borrelia bissettii

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1256-1257

  Ullmann, Amy J ^a   Lane, Robert S ^b   Kurtenbach, Klaus ^c   Miller, Michael ^d   Schriefer, Martin E ^a   Zeidner, Nordin ^a   Piesman, Joseph ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Colorado Division of Wildlife ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT;

PARASITOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOLYSIS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BISSETTII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DEER; LIZARD; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; QUAIL; RABBIT; SERUM BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOLYSIS; BLOOD BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COLINUS; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; DEER; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; LIZARDS; PEROMYSCUS; RABBITS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BISSETTII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CERVIDAE; COLINUS VIRGINIANUS; ODOCOILEUS; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; PHASIANIDAE; RODENTIA; SCELOPORUS; SCELOPORUS OCCIDENTALIS; SCELOPORUS UNDULATUS; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0345737005     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/Ge-3081RN     Document Type: Article

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