Population structure of the Lyme borreliosis spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi in the western black-legged tick (Ixodes pacificus) in northern California

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 7243-7252

  Girard, Yvette A ^a   Travinsky, Bridgit ^b   Schotthoefer, Anna ^c   Fedorova, Natalia ^a   Eisen, Rebecca J ^c   Eisen, Lars ^d   Barbour, Alan G ^b   Lane, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; RNA;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CALIFORNIA; GENETIC DIVERSITY; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMAN INFECTION; INTERGENIC SPACERS; LOWER DENSITY; POPULATION STRUCTURES;

BACTERIA;

RNA 16S; RNA 23S; SPACER DNA;

BACTERIUM; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE VECTOR; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; LYME DISEASE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RNA; TICK;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IXODES; IXODES PACIFICUS; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSPC GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TICK; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES PACIFICUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; SCIURUS GRISEUS; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 70449347664     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01704-09     Document Type: Article

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