Out of the Woods: The remarkable genomes of the genus Borrelia

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 6812-6814

  Norris, Steven J ^a   Lin, Tao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA RECURRENTIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT FEVER;

BORRELIA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE;

BORRELIA;

EID: 84855838180     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.06317-11     Document Type: Note

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