The long strange trip of Borrelia burgdorferi outer-surface protein C

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-4

  Radolf, Justin D ^a   Caimano, Melissa J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OUTER SURFACE LIPOPROTEIN; OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN C;

BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INOCULATION; LYME DISEASE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; SKIN; SPIROCHETE; TICK;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MICE;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; SPIROCHAETES;

EID: 45149117244     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06226.x     Document Type: Note

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