Genetic diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato isolated in far eastern Russia

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 595-600

  Masuzawa, Toshiyuki ^a   Iwaki, Atsue ^a   Sato, Yukita ^b   Miyamoto, Kenji ^b   Korenberg, Edward I ^c   Yanagihara, Yasutake ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

^b ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Borrelia; Far east; Intergenic spacer; Ixodes persulcatus; Lyme disease; rRNA; Russia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA ANALYSIS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; APODEMUS PENINSULAE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; CLETHRIONOMYS RUFOCANUS; IXODES PERSULCATUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0030768190     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1997.tb01897.x     Document Type: Article

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