Immunological and molecular analyses of the Borrelia hermsii factor H and factor H-like protein 1 binding protein, FhbA: Demonstration of its utility as a diagnostic marker and epidemiological tool for tick-borne relapsing fever

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 4519-4529

  Hovis, Kelley M ^a   Schriefer, Martin E ^b   Bahlani, Sonia ^a   Marconi, Richard T ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; FACTOR H LIKE PROTEIN 1 BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN FHBA; PROTEIN FHBA1; PROTEIN FHBA2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORRELIA HERMSII; BORRELIA INFECTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BORRELIA; CARRIER PROTEINS; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RELAPSING FEVER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 33746585279     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00377-06     Document Type: Article

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