Infectious cycle analysis of a Borrelia burgdorferi mutant defective in transport of chitobiose, a tick cuticle component

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 159-168

  Tilly, Kit ^a,b   Grimm, Dorothee ^a   Bueschel, Dawn M ^a   Krum, Jonathan G ^a   Rosa, Patricia ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

chbC gene; Lyme disease; Vector bone disease

Indexed keywords

CHITIN DERIVATIVE; CHITOBIOSE; GLUCOSE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PLASMID DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CARBOHYDRATE TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PURIFICATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TICK;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CARRIER PROTEINS; DISACCHARIDES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; IXODES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICE; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; VIRULENCE;

ACARI; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES MURIS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 3543070597     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/1530366041210738     Document Type: Article

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