Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato Diversity and Its Influence on Pathogenicity in Humans

Current Problems in Dermatology

Volumn 37, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-17

  Baranton, Guy ^a   De Martino, Sylvie J ^b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CRASP 1 PROTEIN; CRASP 2 PROTEIN; CRASP 3 PROTEIN; CRASP 4 PROTEIN; CRASP 5 PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN A; OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VLSE PROTEIN; BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA ANDERSONII; BORRELIA BISSETTII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA CALIFORNIENSI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA JAPONICA; BORRELIA LUSITANIAE; BORRELIA SINICA; BORRELIA SPIELMANII; BORRELIA TANUKII; BORRELIA TURDI; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST SELECTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; JOINT; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES INVASION; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; TICK; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; IXODIDAE; LYME DISEASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 67649516303     PISSN: 14215721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000213066     Document Type: Review

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