Population genetics, taxonomy, phylogeny and evolution of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1545-1563

  Margos, Gabriele ^a   Vollmer, Stephanie A ^a   Ogden, Nicholas H ^b   Fish, Durland ^c  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Evolution; Ixodes; MLST; Molecular ecology; Multilocus sequence typing

Indexed keywords

ASIA; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE CARRIER; EUROPE; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SPECIES COMPARISON; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; TICKS; ZOONOSES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; IXODES;

EID: 80053575351     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.07.022     Document Type: Review

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