Cloning and sequencing of a species-specific nucleotide fragment of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, which is repeated in several plasmids of the species

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 157-164

  Misonne, Marie Christine ^a   Schuttler, Marielle ^a   Dernelle, Jean Michel ^a   De Kesel, Myriam ^a   Hoet, Philippe Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato; repeated plasmid sequence; species specific nucleotide sequence

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030994220     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00123-7     Document Type: Article

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