Complications of pregnancy and transplacental transmission of relapsing-fever borreliosis

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 194, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1367-1374

  Larsson, Christer ^a   Andersson, Marie ^a   Guo, Betty P ^a   Nordstrand, Annika ^a   Hägerstrand, Inga ^a   Carlsson, Sara ^a   Bergström, Sven ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PLACENTA BARRIER; BORRELIA; BORRELIA DUTTONII; BORRELIA INFECTION; CONGENITAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FETUS CIRCULATION; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; INFLAMMATION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MOUSE; NEWBORN DEATH; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA DISORDER; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BORRELIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETAL WEIGHT; HEMOGLOBINS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RELAPSING FEVER;

EID: 33750706594     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/508425     Document Type: Article

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