Pathogen specificity and autoimmunity are distinct features of antigen-driven immune responses in neuroborreliosis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 3842-3847

  Kuenzle, Sandra ^a   Von Büdingen, Hans Christian ^a   Meier, Mirjam ^a   Harrer, Melanie D ^a   Urich, Eduard ^a   Becher, Burkhard ^a   Goebels, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MYELIN;

ADULT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CELL CLONE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTER; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NEUROBORRELIOSIS; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPIROCHETE;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNITY; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CROSS REACTIONS; HUMANS; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MYELIN SHEATH; PLASMA CELLS;

EID: 34547645628     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00260-07     Document Type: Article

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