Genetic diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi and detection of B. bissettii-Like DNA in serum of north-coastal California residents

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 945-954

  Girard, Yvette A ^a   Fedorova, Natalia ^a   Lane, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BISSETTII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA; CALIFORNIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODIDA; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 79952326098     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01689-10     Document Type: Article

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