A Tick Antioxidant Facilitates the Lyme Disease Agent's Successful Migration from the Mammalian Host to the Arthropod Vector

Cell Host and Microbe

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 7-18

  Narasimhan, Sukanya ^a   Sukumaran, Bindu ^a   Bozdogan, Ulas ^a   Thomas, Venetta ^a   Liang, Xianping ^a   DePonte, Kathleen ^a   Marcantonio, Nancy ^a   Koski, Raymond A ^b   Anderson, John F ^c   Kantor, Fred ^a   Fikrig, Erol ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b L2 Diagnostics LLC   (United States)

^c Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

MICROBIO

Indexed keywords

REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SALIVA PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LYME DISEASE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPIROCHETE; TICK BITE; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; INSECT PROTEINS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MAMMALS; MICE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, MESSENGER; SALIVARY GLANDS; SPIROCHAETALES;

ARTHROPODA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; MUS; SPIROCHAETALES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34347352122     PISSN: 19313128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2007.06.001     Document Type: Article

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