Taxonomic classification of 29 Borrelia burgdorferi strains isolated from patients with Lyme borreliosis: a comparison of five different phenotypic and genotypic typing schemes

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 183, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 325-341

  Lebech, Anne Mette ^a   Hansen, Klaus ^a   Wilske, Bettina ^b   Theisen, Michael ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FLAGELLIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHROMOSOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EUROPE; GENOTYPE; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROTYPE; SKIN; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EUROPE; FLAGELLIN; GENES, STRUCTURAL, BACTERIAL; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NORTH AMERICA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SKIN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TICKS;

EID: 0028657030     PISSN: 03008584     EISSN: 14321831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00196683     Document Type: Article

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