Detection of borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto ospC Alleles associated with human lyme borreliosis worldwide in non-human-biting tick ixodes affinis and rodent hosts in southeastern United States

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1444-1453

  Rudenko, Nataliia ^a   Golovchenko, Maryna ^a   Hönig, Václav ^a   Mallátová, Nadja ^b   Krbková, Lenka ^c   Mikulášek, Peter ^c   Fedorova, Natalia ^d   Belfiore, Natalia M ^e   Grubhoffer, Libor ^a   Lane, Robert S ^d   Oliver, James H ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b Ceske Budejovice Hospital   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRNO   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA   (United States)

^f GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA SPECIES; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; LYME DISEASE; NORTH AMERICAN;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

GENES;

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL DNA; OSPC PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALLELE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE PREVALENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RELATEDNESS; RODENT; SAMPLING;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RODENT;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA, BACTERIAL; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IXODES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH AMERICA; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874751550     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02749-12     Document Type: Article

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