The role of VlsE antigenic variation in the Lyme disease spirochete: Persistence through a mechanism that differs from other pathogens

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1547-1558

  Bankhead, Troy ^a   Chaconas, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; VLSE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLONE CELLS; GENE DELETION; IMMUNE SERA; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; TELOMERE;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; MAMMALIA; MUS; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 34548309048     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05895.x     Document Type: Article

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