Borrelia chilensis, a new member of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex that extends the range of this genospecies in the Southern Hemisphere

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1069-1080

  Ivanova, Larisa B ^a   Tomova, Alexandra ^a   González Acuña, Daniel ^b   Murúa, Roberto ^c   Moreno, Claudia X ^a,i   Hernández, Claudio ^d   Cabello, Javier ^e,f   Cabello, Carlos ^g   Daniels, Thomas J ^a,h   Godfrey, Henry P ^a   Cabello, Felipe C ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^e Chiloe Silvestre   (Chile)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^g Servicio Agricola y Ganadero   (Chile)

^h FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; IXODES; IXODES STILESI; IXODIDA; OLIGORYZOMYS LONGICAUDATUS; ORYZOMYS; SPIROCHAETALES;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHILE; CLASSIFICATION; DEER; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CHILE; DEER; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; IXODES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RODENTIA;

EID: 84898056904     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12310     Document Type: Article

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