A novel surface antigen of relapsing fever spirochetes can discriminate between relapsing fever and lyme borreliosis

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 564-571

  Lopez, Job E ^a   Schrumpf, Merry E ^a   Nagarajan, Vijayaraj ^b   Raffel, Sandra J ^a   McCoy, Brandi N ^a   Schwan, Tom G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BORRELIA IMMUNOGENIC PROTEIN A; HYBRID PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT BORRELIA IMMUNOGENIC PROTEIN A; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA HERMSII; BORRELIA INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGENICITY; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; SEROLOGY; SPIROCHETE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BORRELIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH AMERICA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RELAPSING FEVER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77950685995     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00518-09     Document Type: Article

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