Detection and typing of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato genospecies in Ixodes persulcatus ticks in West Siberia, Russia

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 227, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 157-161

  Beklemishev, Anatoly B ^a   Dobrotvorsky, Andrey K ^b   Piterina, Anna V ^a   Ivanov, Igor D ^a   Nomokonova, Nataliya Yu ^a,c   Livanova, Nataliya N ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMATICS AND ECOLOGY OF ANIMALS   (Russian Federation)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato; Genospecies; Genotyping; Infection rate; Ixodes persulcatus tick; Polymerase chain reaction; Restriction fragment length polymorphism; Russia; West Siberia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SPACER DNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EUROPE; FEMALE; INFECTION RATE; IXODES PERSULCATUS; JAPAN; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACARI; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; IXODES PERSULCATUS; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 0142195884     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00581-0     Document Type: Article

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