Identifying relapsing fever Borrelia, Senegal

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 474-475

  Brahim, Hamoud ^a   Perrier Gros Claude, Jean David ^a   Postic, Danielle ^b   Baranton, Guy ^b   Jambou, Ronan ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; BORRELIA INFECTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; SENEGAL; SERUM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPIROCHETE;

EID: 14644414230     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1103.040506     Document Type: Article

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