Quantitation Of The Borrelia Burgdorferi Outer Surface Protein A In Ixodes Scapularis: Fluctuations During The Tick Life Cycle, Doubling Times, And Loss While Feeding

Delineation of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Stricto, Borrelia garinii sp. nov., and Group VS461 Associated with Lyme Borreliosis

1992 • 882 citations

Duration of tick attachment and Borrelia burgdorferi transmission

1987 • 506 citations

Protection of Mice Against the Lyme Disease Agent by Immunizing with Recombinant OspA

1990 • 480 citations

Lyme Borreliosis: Relation of Its Causative Agent to Its Vectors and Hosts in North America and Europe

1991 • 458 citations

Lyme disease spirochetes and ixodid tick spirochetes share a common surface antigenic determinant defined by a monoclonal antibody

1983 • 443 citations

Monoclonal Antibodies for Identification of Borrelia afzelii sp. nov. Associated with Late Cutaneous Manifestations of Lyme Borreliosis

1993 • 426 citations

Kinetics of Borrelia burgdorferi dissemination and evolution of disease after intradermal inoculation of mice.

1991 • 349 citations

Protective immunity elicited by recombinant bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) expressing outer surface protein A (OspA) lipoprotein: a candidate Lyme disease vaccine.

1993 • 269 citations

Elimination of Borrelia burgdorferi from vector ticks feeding on OspA-immunized mice.

1992 • 243 citations

Conspecificity of the Ticks Ixodes scapularis and I. dammini (Acari: Ixodidae)

1993 • 238 citations

Dissemination and Salivary Delivery of Lyme Disease Spirochetes in Vector Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae)

1987 • 229 citations

Ear punch biopsy method for detection and isolation of Borrelia burgdorferi from rodents

1989 • 227 citations

Dynamics of Borrelia burgdorferi Transmission by Nymphal Ixodes dammini Ticks

1993 • 197 citations

Growth Kinetics of the Lyme Disease Spirochete (Borrelia Burgdorferi) in Vector Ticks (Ixodes Dammini)

1990 • 164 citations

Investigation of the validity of species status of Ixodes dammini (Acari: Ixodidae) using rDNA.

1993 • 157 citations

Reactivity of human Lyme borreliosis sera with a 39-kilodalton antigen specific to Borrelia burgdorferi

1990 • 132 citations

Immune capture and detection of Borrelia burgdorferi antigens in urine, blood, or tissues from infected ticks, mice, dogs, and humans

1991 • 130 citations

Standard System for Infecting Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) with the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi

1993 • 113 citations

Adult Ixodes dammini on Rabbits: A Hypothesis for the Development and Transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi

1987 • 110 citations

Mode of Inoculation of the Lyme Disease Agent Borrelia burgdorferi Influences Infection and Immune Responses in Inbred Strains of Mice

1993 • 106 citations

Molecular mapping of Osp-A mediated immunity against Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease.

1991 • 96 citations

The hamster immune response to tick-transmitted Borrelia burgdorferi differs from the response to needle-inoculated, cultured organisms.

1992 • 82 citations

Simultaneous transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi and Babesia microti by individual nymphal Ixodes dammini ticks

1987 • 60 citations

Serologic Diagnosis of Lyme Disease using Recombinant Outer Surface Proteins A and Band Flagellin

1992 • 53 citations

Tick transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi to inbred strains of mice induces an antibody response to P39 but not to outer surface protein A

1994 • 34 citations

The major histocompatibility complex-restricted response of recombinant inbred strains of mice to natural tick transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi.

1993 • 31 citations

Topical Prophylaxis for Lyme Disease after Tick Bite in a Rodent Model

1993 • 22 citations

An OspA antigen-capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detecting North American isolates of Borrelia burgdorferi in larval and nymphal Ixodes dammini

1993 • 19 citations

Field Trial of an Outer Surface Protein A (OspA) Antigen-Capture Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (Elisa) to Detect Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes scapularis

1994 • 15 citations