Functional analysis of the borrelia burgdorferi bba64 gene product in murine infection via tick infestation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Patton, Toni G ^a   Dietrich, Gabrielle ^a   Dolan, Marc C ^a   Piesman, Joseph ^a   Carroll, James A ^b   Gilmore, Robert D ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BBA64 GENE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PHENOTYPE; SALIVARY GLAND; TICK BITE; TICK INFESTATION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IXODES; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; MUS; SPIROCHAETALES;

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BBA64 PROTEIN, BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; MYD88 PROTEIN, MOUSE; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 79955764702     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019536     Document Type: Article

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