Lyme disease Borrelia species in northeastern China resemble those isolated from far eastern Russia and Japan

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2705-2709

  Li, Muqing ^a,b   Masuzawa, Toshiyuki ^b   Takada, Nobuhiro ^c   Ishiguro, Fubito ^d   Fujita, Hiromi ^e   Iwaki, Atsue ^b   Wang, Haipeng ^f   Wang, Jichun ^f   Kawabata, Masato ^a   Yanagihara, Yasutake ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^d Fukui Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science   (Japan)

^e Ohara General Hospital   (Japan)

^f CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHINA; JAPAN; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA JAPONICA; JAPONICA;

EID: 0031816236     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.7.2705-2709.1998     Document Type: Article

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