Borrelia burgdorferi needs chemotaxis to establish infection in mammals and to accomplish its enzootic cycle

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2485-2492

  Sze, Ching Wooen ^a   Zhang, Kai ^a   Kariu, Toru ^b   Pal, Utpal ^b   Li, Chunhao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHEA2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INACTIVATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TICK BITE; TICK INFESTATION;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; CHEMOTAXIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, SCID; PROTEIN KINASES; TICKS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84864821396     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00145-12     Document Type: Article

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