The relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia miyamotoi resists complement-mediated killing by human serum

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 898-901

  Teegler, Axel ^a   Herzberger, Pia ^a   Margos, Gabriele ^b   Fingerle, Volker ^b   Kraiczy, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b German National Reference Centre for Borrelia   (Germany)

Author keywords

Borrelia; Borrelia miyamotoi; Complement; Immune evasion; Spirochetes

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL COMPLEMENT PATHWAY C3 C5 CONVERTASE; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C5; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C7; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C8; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C9; COMPLEMENT MEMBRANE ATTACK COMPLEX;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOLYSIS; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVATED SPECIES; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; FEVER; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IXODIDAE; MALAISE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NONHUMAN; SPIROCHETE; ANIMAL; BORRELIA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA; COMPLEMENT C3; HUMANS; RELAPSING FEVER;

EID: 84907683315     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2014.07.011     Document Type: Article

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