Characterization of borrelia garinii isolated from lyme disease patients in hokkaido, japan, by sequence analysis of OspA and OspB genes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 371-375

  Wang, Jianhui ^a   Masuzawa, Toshiyuki ^a   Yanagihara, Yasutake ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Borrelia garinii; Lyme disease; ospA gene; ospB gene

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BORRELIA; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BORRELIA; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA GARINII;

EID: 0030846751     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00355-8     Document Type: Article

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