Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Russia and neighbouring countries: High incidence of mixed isolates

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 148, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 691-702

  Postic, D ^a   Korenberg, E ^b   Gorelova, N ^b   Kovalevski, Y V ^b   Bellenger, E ^a   Baranton, G ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b GAMALEYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato; Coinfection; Geographical repartition; Ixodes; Lyme disease; Russia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INCIDENCE; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0030817821     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2508(99)80068-0     Document Type: Article

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