Borrelia burgdorferi complement regulator-acquiring surface protein 1 of the Lyme disease spirochetes is expressed in humans and induces antibody responses restricted to nondenatured structural determinants

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 7024-7028

  Rossmann, Evelyn ^a   Kitiratschky, Véronique ^a   Hofmann, Heidelore ^b   Kraiczy, Peter ^c   Simon, Markus M ^d   Wallich, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; COMPLEMENT REGULATOR ACQUIRING SURFACE PROTEIN 1;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LYME DISEASE; PERSISTENT INFECTION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODY FORMATION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; EPITOPES; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS;

EID: 33845509034     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01028-06     Document Type: Article

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