OspE-Related, OspF-Related, and Elp Lipoproteins Are Immunogenic in Baboons Experimentally Infected with Borrelia burgdorferi and in Human Lyme Disease Patients

Presently, the rhesus macaque is the only nonhuman primate animal model utilized for the study of Lyme disease. While this animal model closely mimics human disease, rhesus macaques can harbor the herpes B virus, which is often lethal to humans; macaques also do not express the full complement of im...

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Main Authors: Hefty, P. Scott, Brooks, Chad S., Jett, Amy M., White, Gary L., Wikel, Stephen K., Kennedy, Ronald C., Akins, Darrin R.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2002
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Bacteriology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC139709/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12409407
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.40.11.4256-4265.2002
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