Evidence for frequent OspC gene transfer between Borrelia valaisiana sp. nov. and other Lyme disease spirochetes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 289-296

  Wang, Guiqing ^a   Van Dam, Alje P ^a   Dankert, Jacob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato; Horizontal gene transfer; Lyme disease; OspC

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPIROCHAETA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BORRELIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0032791943     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00346-8     Document Type: Article

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