Clocking the Lyme spirochete

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Malawista, Stephen E ^a   de Boisfleury Chevance, Anne ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CELL SURFACE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE MIGRATION; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROSCOPY; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; SPIROCHETE; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE ADHESION; VELOCITY; KINETICS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THROMBOCYTE;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; SPIROCHAETALES;

BLOOD PLATELETS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; HUMANS; KINETICS; LYME DISEASE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHAGOCYTES; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 45449115552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001633     Document Type: Article

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