Typing of Borrelia relapsing fever group strains

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1661-1664

  Bunikis, Jonas ^a   Tsao, Jean ^b,c   Garpmo, Ulf ^d   Berglund, Johan ^d   Fish, Durland ^b   Barbour, Alan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KALMAR COUNTY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA HERMSII; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA LONESTARI; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI; BORRELIA TURICATAE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HEALTH SURVEY; IXODES; NONHUMAN; SEROTYPING; SWEDEN; TICK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4444355654     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1009.040236     Document Type: Article

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