First isolation of Borrelia lusitaniae DNA from Ixodes ricinus ticks in Poland

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 27-34

  Wodecka, Beata ^a   Skotarczak, Bogumila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA LUSITANIAE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; DNA RESTRICTION; EUROPE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; IXODES RICINUS; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TICK; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLAGELLIN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IXODES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 13644261877     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540410026059     Document Type: Article

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