Remarkable diversity of tick or mammalian-associated Borreliae in the metropolitan San Francisco Bay Area, California

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 951-961

  Fedorova, Natalia ^a,b   Kleinjan, Joyce E ^b   James, David ^b   Hui, Lucia T ^b   Peeters, Hans ^c   Lane, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Alameda County Vector Control Services District   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato; Borrelia miyamotoi; Ixodes; Osp C; Rodents

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AMERICANA; BORRELIA BISSETTII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA CALIFORNIENSIS; BORRELIA GENOMOSPECIES; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; IXODES; IXODES PACIFICUS; IXODES SPINIPALPIS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NEOTOMA; NEOTOMA FUSCIPES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSPC GENE; PHYLOGENY; RATTUS RATTUS; SCIURUS; SCIURUS NIGER; SPECIES HABITAT; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ARACHNID VECTOR; ARVICOLINAE; CALIFORNIA; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NYMPH; RAT; RELAPSING FEVER; SCIURIDAE; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; ARVICOLINAE; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NYMPH; PHYLOGENY; RATS; RELAPSING FEVER; SAN FRANCISCO; SCIURIDAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84907705444     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2014.07.015     Document Type: Article

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