Wide distribution of a high-virulence Borrelia burgdorferi clone in Europe and North America

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1097-1104

  Qiu, Wei Gang ^a   Bruno, John F ^b   McCaig, William D ^a   Xu, Yun ^b   Livey, Ian ^c   Schriefer, Martin E ^d   Luft, Benjamin J ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BAXTER INNOVATIONS GMBH   (Austria)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN C; RNA 16S; RNA 23S;

ACKA GENE; ALR GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GAP GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLPA GENE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; INCIDENCE; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TGT GENE; XYLB GENE;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; EUROPE; GENETIC DRIFT; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 46349102911     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1407.070880     Document Type: Article

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