Spitting image: Tick saliva assists the causative agent of lyme disease in evading host skins innate immune response

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 129, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2337-2339

  Hovius, Joppe W R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; HOST; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYME DISEASE; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; SALIVA; SPIROCHETE; TICK; TICK BITE;

EID: 70349134338     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jid.2009.202     Document Type: Note

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