Competitive advantage of Borrelia burgdorferi with outer surface protein BBA03 during tick-mediated infection of the mammalian host

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 80, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3501-3511

  Bestor, Aaron ^a   Rego, Ryan O M ^a   Tilly, Kit ^a   Rosa, Patricia A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN BBA03; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HOST; LYME DISEASE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TICK;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IXODES; MICE; MUTATION;

EID: 84867597406     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00521-12     Document Type: Article

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