High prevalence of genetically diverse Borrelia bavariensis-like strains in Ixodes persulcatus from Selenge Aimag, Mongolia

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 89-92

  Scholz, Holger C ^a   Margos, G ^e   Derschum, H ^a   Speck, S ^a   Tserennorov, D ^b   Erdenebat, N ^c   Undraa, B ^b   Enkhtuja, M ^b   Battsetseg, J ^b   Otgonchimeg, C ^c   Otgonsuren, G ^c   Nymadulam, B ^c   Romer A ^d   Thomas, A ^a   Essbauer, S ^a   Wolfel R ^a   Kiefer, D ^d   Zoller L ^a   Otgonbaatar, D ^b   Fingerle, V ^e  

^a BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Ulaanbaatar   (Mongolia)

^c NCIDNF   (Mongolia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e German National Reference Centre for Borrelia   (Germany)

Author keywords

Borrelia; Genetic diversity; Ixodes persulcatus; Molecular ecology; Real time PCR; Selenge Aimag; Subtyping

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BAVARIENSIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMAGO; IXODES PERSULCATUS; LYME DISEASE; MONGOLIA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MONGOLIA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; BORRELIA GARINII; IXODES PERSULCATUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 84872613524     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.08.004     Document Type: Article

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