Experimental infections of the reservoir species peromyscus leucopus with diverse strains of borrelia burgdorferi, a Lyme disease agent

mBio

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Baum, Elisabeth ^a   Hue, Fong ^a   Barbour, Alan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN BBK07; PROTEIN BBK12; PROTEIN BMPA; PROTEIN DBPB; PROTEIN FLAB; PROTEIN OSPC; PROTEIN VLSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BBK07 GENE; BBK12 GENE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOUSE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES; VLSE GENE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; BORRELIA INFECTION; DISEASE CARRIER; MICROBIOLOGY; MIXED INFECTION; PATHOGENICITY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; RODENTIA; SPIROCHAETALES;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL LOAD; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; COINFECTION; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; PEROMYSCUS; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84872147816     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00434-12     Document Type: Article

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