A call to order at the spirochaetal host-pathogen interface

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 207-211

  Zückert, Wolfram R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; FIBRONECTIN; LAMININ; LIPOPROTEIN; PLASMINOGEN; PROTEIN OSPC; PROTEIN VLSE; PROTEOGLYCAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IN VIVO STUDY; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPIROCHAETA; SPIROCHETE INFECTION; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME DISEASE;

ARTHROPODA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; MAMMALIA; SPIROCHAETA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84880131857     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12286     Document Type: Note

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