The expanding Lyme Borrelia complex-clinical significance of genomic species?

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 487-493

  Stanek, G ^a   Reiter, M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Borrelia afzelii; Borrelia burgdorferi; Borrelia garinii; Clinical relevance; Genomic species

Indexed keywords

BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA AMERICANA; BORRELIA ANDERSONII; BORRELIA BAVARIENSIS; BORRELIA BISSETTII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA CALIFORNIENSIS; BORRELIA CAROLINENSIS; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA JAPONICA; BORRELIA KURTENBACHII; BORRELIA LUSITANIAE; BORRELIA SINICA; BORRELIA SPIELMANII; BORRELIA TANUKII; BORRELIA TURDI; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; BORRELIA YANGTZE; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA ANDERSONII; BORRELIA BISSETTII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA JAPONICA; BORRELIA LUSITANIAE; BORRELIA SINICA; BORRELIA SPIELMANII; BORRELIA TANUKII; BORRELIA TURDI; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; CAROLINENSIS; SPIROCHAETES;

EID: 79952721915     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2011.03492.x     Document Type: Review

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