Borrelia burgdorferi changes its surface antigenic expression in response to host immune responses

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 5759-5767

  Liang, Fang Ting ^a   Yan, Jun ^a   Mbow, M Lamine ^b   Sviat, Steven L ^c   Gilmore, Robert D ^c   Mamula, Mark ^a   Fikrig, Erol ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CENTOCOR INC   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECORIN BINDING PROTEIN A; LIPOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN C; PROTEIN BBF01; PROTEIN VLSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCID MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEART; IMMUNE SERA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, SCID; MYOCARDIUM;

EID: 4644243233     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.10.5759-5767.2004     Document Type: Article

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