Antigenicity and recombination of VlsE, the antigenic variation protein of Borrelia burgdorferi, in rabbits, a host putatively resistant to long-term infection with this spirochete

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 421-429

  Embers, Monica E ^a   Liang, Fang Ting ^a,d   Howell, Jerrilyn K ^b   Jacobs, Mary B ^a   Purcell, Jeanette E ^a,e   Norris, Steven J ^b   Johnson, Barbara J B ^c   Philipp, Mario T ^a  

^a TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Biologic Resources Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigenic variation; Borrelia burgdorferi; Decoy epitope; Rabbit; VlsE

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RABBIT; SPIROCHETE; SPIROCHETE INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME DISEASE; PEPTIDES; RABBITS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 34447286212     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2007.00276.x     Document Type: Article

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