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Experimental Feline Lyme Borreliosis as a Model for Testing Borrelia Burgdorferi Vaccines

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Immunobiology of Proteins and Peptides VIII

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Lyme disease is a multisymptom disease resulting in dermatologic, rheumatologic, neurologic and cardiac abnormalities which develop in stages with various clinical pictures (1) following infection by a newly discovered spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi (2).

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Gibson, M.D., Omran, M.T., Young, C.R. (1995). Experimental Feline Lyme Borreliosis as a Model for Testing Borrelia Burgdorferi Vaccines. In: Atassi, M.Z., Bixler, G.S. (eds) Immunobiology of Proteins and Peptides VIII. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 383. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1891-4_9

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