Evaluation of a real-time PCR assay for the detection, genotyping, and quantification of borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in ixodes ticks in a routine laboratory setting

Clinical Laboratory

Volumn 57, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 67-73

  Wolff, Dietmar ^a   Gerritzen, Andreas ^a  

^a Medizinisches Labor Bremen   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibiotic treatment; Borrelia burgdorferi; Ixodes ticks; Lyme disease; Melt curve analysis; Real Time PCR

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA LUSITANIAE; BORRELIA SPIELMANII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; DILUTION; GENOME; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HUMAN; IXODES; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; EVALUATION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STANDARD;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA LUSITANIAE; BORRELIA SPIELMANII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; IXODES; IXODIDA;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; IXODES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 79953813862     PISSN: 14336510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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