Rapid clearance of lyme disease spirochetes lacking OspC from skin

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1517-1519

  Tilly, Kit ^a,b   Bestor, Aaron ^a   Jewett, Mollie W ^a   Rosa, Patricia ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OSPC GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; SPIROCHETE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENE DELETION; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 33847718736     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01725-06     Document Type: Article

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