Experimental assessment of the roles of linear plasmids lp25 and lp28-1 of Borrelia burgdorferi throughout the infectious cycle

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 5938-5946

  Grimm, Dorothee ^a   Eggers, Christian H ^b   Caimano, Melissa J ^b   Tilly, Kit ^a   Stewart, Philip E ^a   Elias, Abdallah F ^a   Radolf, Justin D ^b   Rosa, Patricia A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLONE; GENE SEQUENCE; INFECTION; LINEAR PLASMID LP25; LINEAR PLASMID LP28 1; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHUTTLE VECTOR;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC MARKERS; IMMUNE SERA; LYME DISEASE; MICE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; TEMPERATURE; TICKS;

EID: 4644249919     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.10.5938-5946.2004     Document Type: Article

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