Diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato in Russian Far East

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 191-197

  Mediannikov, Oleg Y ^a,b,c   Ivanov, Leonid ^d   Zdanovskaya, Nina ^d   Vorobyova, Rimma ^d   Sidelnikov, Yuri ^b   Fournier, Pierre Edouard ^c   Tarasevich, Irina ^a   Raoult, Didier ^c  

^a GAMALEYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b FAR EASTERN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d N N BLOKHIN NATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER OF ONCOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato; Borrelia garinii; Lyme disease; ospA gene

Indexed keywords

OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN A;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIODIVERSITY; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BISSETTII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; IXODES PERSULCATUS; LYME DISEASE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEROLOGY; TAXONOMY; TICK; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

EID: 17044379083     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2005.tb03717.x     Document Type: Article

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