Patient isolates of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato with genotypic and phenotypic similarities to strain 25015

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 174, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1112-1115

  Picken, Roger N ^b   Cheng, Yu ^b   Strle, Franc ^b   Picken, Maria M ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0029964869     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/174.5.1112     Document Type: Article

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