Identical strains of Borrelia hermsii in mammal and bird

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2064-2066

  Fischer, Robert J ^a   Johnson, Tammi L ^a,b   Raffel, Sandra J ^a   Schwan, Tom G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BORRELIA HERMSII; BORRELIA INFECTION; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OWL; PREVALENCE; SPIROCHETE INFECTION; SQUIRREL;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA; HUMANS; MICE; SCIURIDAE; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 73949134486     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1512.090792     Document Type: Letter

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