MLST of housekeeping genes captures geographic population structure and suggests a European origin of Borrelia burgdorferi

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 8730-8735

  Margos, Gabriele ^a   Gatewood, Anne G ^b   Aanensen, David M ^c   Hanincová, Klára ^d   Terekhova, Darya ^d   Vollmer, Stephanie A ^a   Cornet, Muriel ^e   Piesman, Joseph ^f   Donaghy, Michael ^g   Bormane, Antra ^h   Hurn, Merrilee A ^a   Feil, Edward J ^a   Fish, Durland ^b   Casjens, Sherwood ⁱ   Wormser, Gary P ^d   Schwartz, Ira ^d   Kurtenbach, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^e INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h Public Health Agency   (Latvia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Lyme borreliosis; Ticks

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHROMOSOME; EUROPE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHY; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TICK; VALIDATION STUDY;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA, BACTERIAL; EUROPE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODIDA;

EID: 47249155613     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0800323105     Document Type: Article

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