Coinfection with Anaplasma phagocytophilum alters Borrelia burgdorferi population distribution in C3H/HeN mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3440-3444

  Holden, Kevin ^a   Hodzic, Emir ^a   Feng, Sunlian ^a   Freet, Kimberly J ^a   Lefebvre, Ranee B ^b   Barthold, Stephen W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; GENE; GENE TARGETING; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; P44 GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TICK BITE;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H;

EID: 19744364710     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.6.3440-3444.2005     Document Type: Article

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