Role of outer surface protein D in the Borrelia burgdorferi life cycle

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 4237-4244

  Li, Xin ^a   Neelakanta, Girish ^a   Liu, Xianzhong ^a   Beck, Deborah S ^a   Kantor, Fred S ^a   Fish, Durland ^a   Anderson, John F ^b   Fikrig, Erol ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN D; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE INDUCTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LIFE CYCLE; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSPD GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIROCHETE; TICK;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MUTATION;

EID: 34548515109     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00632-07     Document Type: Article

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