Characterization of spirochetes isolated from ticks (Ixodes tanuki, Ixodes turdus, and Ixodes columnae) and comparison of the sequences with those of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2338-2344

  Fukunaga, Masahito ^a   Hamase, Akiko ^a   Okada, Keiji ^a   Inoue, Hirofumi ^a   Tsuruta, Yasuto ^a   Miyamoto, Kenji ^b   Nakao, Minoru ^b  

^a FUKUYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPIROCHETE; TICK;

ACARI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; CLETHRIONOMYS RUFOCANUS; IXODES COLUMNAE; IXODES PERSULCATUS; IXODES TANUKI; IXODES TURDUS; MURIDAE; SPIROCHAETALES; TURDUS; UNIDENTIFIED SPIROCHETE;

EID: 0029987674     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.7.2338-2344.1996     Document Type: Article

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