Diversity within Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato genospecies in Switzerland by recA gene sequence

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 115-123

  Casati, Simona ^a   Bernasconi, Marco V ^a,b   Gern, Lise ^c   Piffaretti, Jean Claude ^a  

^a Istituto Cantonale di Microbiologia   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato; Ixodes ricinus; recA; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA LUSITANIAE; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IXODES RICINUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECA GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CATS; CATTLE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOGS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GOATS; HUMANS; IXODES; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NYMPH; PHYLOGENY; REC A RECOMBINASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SWITZERLAND; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ACARI; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA LUSITANIAE; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; IXODES; IXODES RICINUS;

EID: 4444314090     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.07.025     Document Type: Article

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