Delineation of a new species of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex, Borrelia americana sp. nov.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3875-3880

  Rudenko, Nataliia ^a,b,c   Golovchenko, Maryna ^a,b,c   Lin, Tao ^d   Gao, Lihui ^d   Grubhoffer, Libor ^b,c   Oliver Jr , James H ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CONCATENATED DNA; DNA 23S; DNA 5S; FLAGELLIN; NUCLEOTIDE; OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN A; PROTEIN P66; RNA 16S; SPACER DNA;

16S RRNA GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AMERICANA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA PURIFICATION; FLAGELLIN GENE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IXODES; IXODES MINOR; IXODES PACIFICUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYMPH; OSPA GENE; P66 GENE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA GENE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CALIFORNIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FLAGELLIN; GENES, RRNA; IXODES; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PORINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH CAROLINA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AVES; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BISSETTII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; BORRELIA SP.; CAROLINENSIS; IXODES MINOR; IXODES PACIFICUS; IXODIDA; RODENTIA;

EID: 71549114840     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01050-09     Document Type: Article

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