Novel genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato from rodents and ticks in Southwestern China

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3130-3133

  Chu, Chen Yi ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Jiang, Bao Gui ^a   Wang, Ding Ming ^b   Jiang, Wei Jia ^b   Zhao, Qiu Min ^a   Zhang, Pan He ^a   Wang, Zhao Xiao ^b   Tang, Guang Peng ^b   Yang, Hong ^a   Cao, Wu Chun ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^b Disease Prevention and Control Center of Guizhou Province   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; CHINA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TICK;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CHINA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RODENTIA; TICKS;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; IXODIDA; RODENTIA;

EID: 53649100401     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01195-08     Document Type: Article

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