Genetic diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto in Peromyscus leucopus, the primary reservoir of lyme disease in a region of endemicity in Southern Maryland

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 5331-5341

  Anderson, Jennifer M ^a,b   Norris, Douglas E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; DISEASE CONTROL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIOLOGY; PROTEINS; RESERVOIRS (WATER);

ENZOOTIC CYCLE; GENETIC DIVERSITY; LYME DISEASE (LD); SURFACE PROTEIN;

BIODIVERSITY;

GENOMIC DNA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN A; OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; DISEASE VECTOR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; LYME DISEASE; PROTEIN; TICK;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CRICETIDAE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SPIROCHETE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME DISEASE; MARYLAND; PEROMYSCUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

MARYLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ACARI; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 33747368222     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00014-06     Document Type: Article

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