Three major Lyme Borrelia genospecies (Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, B. afzelii and B. garinii) identified by PCR in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with neuroborreliosis in Sweden

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 341-346

  Ornstein, Katharina ^a   Berglund, Johan ^a   Bergström, Sven ^a   Norrby, Ragnar ^a   Barbour, Alan G ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL VACCINE; LIPOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN A;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SWEDEN; TISSUE SECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SWEDEN; BACTERIAL VACCINES; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS;

EID: 0035987157     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540110080313     Document Type: Article

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