Molecular typing of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato: Taxonomic, epidemiological, and clinical implications

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 633-653

  Wang, Guiqing ^a   Van Dam, Alje P ^a   Schwartz, Ira ^b   Dankert, Jacob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VACCINE; RNA 16S;

ACRODERMATITIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CARDITIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA SEQUENCE; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVIEW; SEROTYPE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VACCINATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA ANDERSONII; BORRELIA BISSETTII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA JAPONICA; BORRELIA LUSITANIAE; BORRELIA TANUKII; BORRELIA TURDI; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; JAPONICA; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 0032872038     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cmr.12.4.633     Document Type: Review

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