Antigenic variation with a twist - The Borrelia story

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1319-1322

  Norris, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VARIABLE LARGE PROTEIN; VARIABLE SMALL PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; FEVER; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONVERSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; NEUROTROPISM; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BORRELIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA HERMSII; PROTOZOA; SPIROCHAETA; SPIROCHAETES;

EID: 33744457946     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05204.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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