Variations in Barbour-Stoenner-Kelly culture medium modulate infectivity and pathogenicity of Borrelia burgdorferi clinical isolates

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 6702-6706

  Wang, Guiqing ^a   Iyer, Radha ^a   Bittker, Susan ^a   Cooper, Denise ^a   Small, Jennifer ^a   Wormser, Gary P ^a   Schwartz, Ira ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BARBOUR STOENNER KELLY CULTURE MEDIUM; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; INOCULATION; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 7044226563     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.11.6702-6706.2004     Document Type: Article

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