Diverse Borrelia burgdorferi strains in a bird-tick cryptic cycle

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1999-2007

  Hamer, Sarah A ^a   Hickling, Graham J ^b   Sidge, Jennifer L ^a   Rosen, Michelle E ^a,d   Walker, Edward D ^c   Tsao, Jean I ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c Michigan State University   (United States)

^d Michigan Department Natural Resources and Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENETIC DIVERSITY; INTERGENIC SPACERS; LYME DISEASE; MICHIGAN; RRNA GENES; SMALL MAMMALS;

GENES; MAINTENANCE; RNA;

MAMMALS;

RIBOSOME RNA;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; BIRD; DISEASE VECTOR; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SMALL MAMMAL; TICK;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES; RABBITS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 79953193432     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02479-10     Document Type: Article

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