Fine-scale phylogeographic structure of Borrelia lusitaniae revealed by multilocus sequence typing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Victorino, Liliana R ^a,b,c   Margos, Gabriele ^b   Feil, Edward J ^b   Collares Pereira, Margarida ^c   Zé Zé, Libia ^a,d   Kurtenbach, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA LUSITANIEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC DISTANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CELL CULTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA LUSITANIAE; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; LACERTIDAE; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 58049202235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004002     Document Type: Article

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