Typing African relapsing fever spirochetes

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1722-1729

  Scott, Julie Christine ^a   Wright, David Julian Maurice ^a   Cutler, Sally Jane ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPACER DNA;

AFRICA; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BORRELIA INFECTION; CHILD; DISEASE CARRIER; GENOME; HUMAN; LOUSE; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMID; SPIROCHETE; TISSUE TYPING;

EID: 27744580453     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1111.050483     Document Type: Article

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