Borrelia bavariensis sp. nov. is widely distributed in Europe and Asia

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue PART 11, 2013, Pages 4284-4288

  Margos, Gabriele ^a,b,c   Wilske, Bettina ^d   Sing, Andreas ^b,c   Hizo Teufel, Cecilia ^b   Cao, Wu Chun ^e   Chu, Chenyi ^e   Scholz, Holger ^f   Straubinger, Reinhard K ^a   Fingerle, Volker ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b National Reference Center for Borrelia   (Germany)

^c Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority   (Germany)

^d State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity ^*  (Germany)

^e BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^f BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BAVARIENSIS; CHINA; EVOLUTION; FRANCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GERMANY; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; IXODES PERSULCATUS; JAPAN; MONGOLIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOVENIA; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; IXODIDA; RODENTIA; SPIROCHAETES;

EID: 84887106799     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.052001-0     Document Type: Article

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