Presence of multiple variants of Borrelia burgdorferi in the natural reservoir Peromyscus leucopus throughout a transmission season

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 397-405

  Swanson, Katherine I ^a   Norris, Douglas E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia; Ixodes; Lyme disease

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN OSPC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PEROMYSCUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; LYME DISEASE; MARYLAND; PEROMYSCUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES; IXODIDA; MUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS;

EID: 45549107007     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2007.0222     Document Type: Article

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