Discrimination of relapsing fever Borrelia persica and Borrelia microtti by diagnostic species-specific primers and polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 201-207

  Oshaghi, Mohammad Ali ^a   Rafinejad, Javad ^a   Choubdar, Nayereh ^a   Piazak, Norayer ^b   Vatandoost, Hassan ^a   Telmadarraiy, Zakiye ^a   Mohtarami, Fatemeh ^a   Ravasan, Naseh Maleki ^c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^c TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Borrelia microtti; Borrelia persica; Eurasia; Molecular typing; Relapsing fever; TBRF

Indexed keywords

GLYCEROPHOSPHODIESTER PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA MICROTTI; BORRELIA PERSICA; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RESTRICTION SITE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GUINEA PIGS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RELAPSING FEVER; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TICKS; TIME FACTORS;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA PERSICA; IXODIDA;

EID: 79953169521     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2009.0170     Document Type: Article

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