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Characterisation of silent and active genes for a variable large protein of Borrelia recurrentis

BACKGROUND: We report the characterisation of the variable large protein (vlp) gene expressed by clinical isolate A1 of Borrelia recurrentis; the agent of the life-threatening disease louse-borne relapsing fever. METHODS: The major vlp protein of this isolate was characterised and a DNA probe create...

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Autores principales: Vidal, Vincent, Cutler, Sally, Scragg, Ian G, Wright, David JM, Kwiatkowski, Dominic
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC130189/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12377101
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-2-25