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Selection of variant Borrelia burgdorferi isolates from mice immunized with outer surface protein A or B.
Infection and immunity - 1 May 1995
Fikrig E, Tao H, Barthold S W, Flavell R A
Abstract excerpt
A nonclonal population of Borrelia burgdorferi N40 (passage 3) that survived protective immunity following challenge inoculation of outer surface protein (Osp) A- or B-hyperimmunized mice were characterized for the molecular basis of evasion of immunity. Two of six B. burgdorferi isolates, cultured from OspA-immunized mice, had antigenic diversity in the carboxyl terminus of OspA and did not bind to the...
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