Immune evasion by tickborne and host-adapted Borrelia burgdorferi

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 395-400

  De Suva, Aravinda M ^b   Fikrig, Erol ^b   Hodzic, Emir ^b   Kantor, Fred S ^b   Telford III, Sam R ^b   Barthold, Stephen W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 17344374189     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/514200     Document Type: Article

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