Characterization of Borrelia sp. isolated from Ixodes tanuki, I. turdus, and I. columnae in Japan by restriction fragment length polymorphism of rrf (5S)-rrl (23S) intergenic spacer amplicons

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-83

  Masuzawa, Toshiyuki ^a   Komikado, Tetsuro ^a   Iwaki, Atsue ^a   Suzuki, Hiroyuki ^a   Kaneda, Kazuhide ^a   Yanagihara, Yasutake ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Intergenic spacer; Ixodes; Lyme disease; Polymerase chain reaction; rRNA; Tick

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 23S; RNA 5S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ACARI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA SP.; IXODES COLUMNAE; IXODES TANUKI; IXODES TURDUS; IXODIDAE; TURDUS;

EID: 0030586762     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00246-7     Document Type: Article

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