Inactivation of Genes for Antigenic Variation in the Relapsing Fever Spirochete Borrelia hermsii Reduces Infectivity in Mice and Transmission by Ticks

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Raffel, Sandra J ^a   Battisti, James M ^a,b   Fischer, Robert J ^a   Schwan, Tom G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BORRELIA INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA ISOLATION; FEMALE; GENE INACTIVATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BORRELIA; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; ORNITHODOROS; PATHOGENICITY; SCID MOUSE; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BORRELIA; MICE; MICE, SCID; MUTATION; ORNITHODOROS; RELAPSING FEVER;

EID: 84901323412     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004056     Document Type: Article

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