Detection of relapsing fever in human blood samples from Israel using PCR targeting the glycerophosphodiester phosphodiesterase (GlpQ) gene

Acta Tropica

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 189-195

  Halperin, Tamar ^a   Orr, Nadav ^b   Cohen, Regev ^a   Hasin, Tal ^a   Davidovitch, Nadav ^c   Klement, Eyal ^a   Kayouf, Raid ^a   Baneth, Gad ^d   Cohen, Dani ^b   Yavzori, Miri ^a  

^a Center for Infectious Disease Research   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Army Health Branch   (Israel)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Borrelia persica; GlpQ; PCR; Relapsing fever

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; GENE PRODUCT; GLYCEROPHOSPHODIESTER PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; RIBOSOME RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOASSAY; BLOOD SYSTEM DISORDER; GENE; HEALTH IMPACT; HEMOPARASITE; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SMEAR; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA CROCIDURE; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA PERSICA; BORRELIA RECURRENTIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEVER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TICK BITE;

BORRELIA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MILITARY PERSONNEL; ORNITHODOROS; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELAPSING FEVER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

ACARI; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA CROCIDURAE; BORRELIA PERSICA; BORRELIA RECURRENTIS; IXODIDA;

EID: 33744456529     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2006.04.004     Document Type: Article

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