Kinetics and in vivo induction of genetic variation of vlsE in Borrelia burgdorferi.

doi:10.1128/IAI.66.8.3689-3697.1998

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Kinetics and in vivo induction of genetic variation of vlsE in Borrelia burgdorferi.

Infection and immunity - 1 Aug 1998

Zhang J R, Norris S J

Abstract excerpt

The Lyme disease agent, Borrelia burgdorferi, is able to persistently infect humans and animals for months or years in the presence of an active immune response. It is not known how the organisms survive immune attack in the mammalian host. vlsE, a gene localized near one end of linear plasmid lp...

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Antigens, Bacterial
Antigens, Surface
Bacterial Proteins
Base Sequence
Borrelia burgdorferi Group
DNA, Bacterial
Disease Models, Animal
Female
Genetic Variation
Kinetics
Lipoproteins
Lyme Disease
Mice
Mice, Inbred C3H
Mice, SCID
Molecular Sequence Data

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