Phylogeography of Borrelia burgdorferi in the eastern United States reflects multiple independent Lyme disease emergence events

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

Volumn 106, Issue 35, 2009, Pages 15013-15018

  Hoen, Anne Gatewood ^a,d   Margos, Gabriele ^b   Bent, Stephen J ^a   Diuk Wasser, Maria A ^a   Barbour, Alan ^c   Kurtenbach, Klaus ^b   Fish, Durland ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geography; Multilocus sequence typing; Phylogeny; Ticks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ALLELES; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA, BACTERIAL; LYME DISEASE; PHYLOGENY; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA;

EID: 70349293702     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903810106     Document Type: Article

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