Bacterin that induces anti-ospA and anti-ospC borreliacidal antibodies provides a high level of protection against canine lyme disease

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 253-259

  Lafleur, Rhonda L ^a   Dant, Jennifer C ^a   Wasmoen, Terri L ^a   Callister, Steven M ^b   Jobe, Dean A ^b   Lovrich, Steven D ^b   Warner, Thomas F ^c   Abdelmagid, O ^a   Schell, Ronald F ^c  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; LYME DISEASE VACCINE; OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN A; OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN C; PLACEBO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; INFECTION PREVENTION; IXODES SCAPULARIS; JOINT STIFFNESS; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYNOVITIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; IMMUNIZATION, SECONDARY; IXODES; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME DISEASE; LYME DISEASE VACCINES; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS;

EID: 59649107062     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00373-08     Document Type: Article

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