Novel relapsing fever spirochete in bat tick

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 522-523

  Gill, James S ^a,d   Ullmann, Amy J ^b   Loftis, Amanda D ^b   Schwan, Tom G ^c   Raffel, Sandra J ^c   Schrumpf, Merry E ^c   Piesman, Joseph ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

AMPLICON; BAT; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; DATA BASE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPIROCHETE; SPIROCHETE INFECTION; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

EID: 41349104898     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1403.070766     Document Type: Letter

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