Comparison of disseminated and nondisseminated strains of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto in mice naturally infected by tick bite

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 5262-5266

  Dolan, Marc C ^a   Piesman, Joseph ^a   Schneider, Bradley S ^b   Schriefer, Martin ^a   Brandt, Kevin ^a   Zeidner, Nordin S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BLADDER; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEART; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INBRED STRAIN; JOINT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OUTBRED STRAIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TICK BITE;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BITES AND STINGS; BLOOD; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IXODES; JOINTS; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; TICK INFESTATIONS; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 4544348356     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.9.5262-5266.2004     Document Type: Article

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