Divergence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato spirochetes could be driven by the host: Diversity of Borrelia strains isolated from ticks feeding on a single bird

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Rudenko, Nataliia ^a,b   Golovchenko, Maryna ^a,b   Belfiore, Natalia M ^c   Grubhoffer, Libor ^a,d   Oliver Jr, James H ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Bird migration; Bird reservoir host; Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato; Ixodes minor; Multilocus sequence analysis; Multilocus sequence typing; Recombinant genotypes; Southeastern United States

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; PROTEIN P66; RNA 16S; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLPA GENE; CLPX GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; IXODES; IXODES MINOR; LARVA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NIFS GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYMPH; OSPC GENE; PEPX GENE; PYRG GENE; RECG GENE; RPLB GENE; UVRA GENE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; TICKS;

EID: 84892650003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-4     Document Type: Article

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