Rapid diagnosis of lyme disease: Flagellin gene-based nested polymerase chain reaction for identification of causative Borrelia species

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 64-73

  Sato, Yukita ^a   Konishi, Tatsuya ^a   Hashimoto, Yoshio ^a   Takahashi, Hidetoshi ^a   Nakaya, Kazuhiro ^a   Fukunaga, Masahito ^b   Nakao, Minoru ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b FUKUYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Borrelia; Flagellin; Lyme disease; PCR; RFLP

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RESTRICTION SITE; SKIN BIOPSY; TICK BITE;

EID: 0031405990     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1201-9712(97)90084-9     Document Type: Article

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