Genetic diversity of ospC in a local population of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto

Genetics

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-30

  Wang, Ing Nang ^a   Dykhuizen, Daniel E ^a   Qiu, Weigang ^a   Dunn, John J ^b   Bosler, Edward M ^a   Luft, Benjamin J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE FREQUENCY; IXODES; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ACARI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CERVIDAE; IXODES DAMMINI; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0032894835     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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