Glycerophosphodiester Phosphodiesterase Gene (glpQ) of Borrelia lonestari Identified as a Target for Differentiating Borrelia Species Associated with Hard Ticks (Acari:Ixodidae)

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2326-2328

  Bacon, Rendi Murphree ^a,c   Pilgard, Mark A ^a   Johnson, Barbara J B ^a   Raffel, Sandra J ^b   Schwan, Tom G ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GLYCEROPHOSPHODIESTER PHOSPHODIESTERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMBLYOMMA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA LONESTARI; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPIROCHETE; TICK;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IXODIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA LONESTARI; IXODIDAE; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 2442615038     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.5.2326-2328.2004     Document Type: Article

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