Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto and Borrelia afzelii: Population structure and differential pathogenicity

International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 305, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 673-681

  Jungnick, Sabrina ^a,b   Margos, Gabriele ^a,b   Rieger, Melissa ^a,b   Dzaferovic, Eldina ^a,b   Bent, Stephen J ^c   Overzier, Evelyn ^d   Silaghi, Cornelia ^d,g   Walder, Gernot ^e   Wex, Franziska ^f   Koloczek, Johannes ^a   Sing, Andreas ^a   Fingerle, Volker ^a,b  

^a BAVARIAN HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Germany)

^b German National Reference Centre for Borrelia   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e Dr Gernot Walder GmbH   (Austria)

^f INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Borrelia afzelii; Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto; Human pathogenesis; Lyme borreliosis; Multilocus sequence analysis; Population structure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI SENSU STRICTO; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; CLASSIFICATION; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; TICK;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; EUROPE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; TICKS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84944279084     PISSN: 14384221     EISSN: 16180607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2015.08.017     Document Type: Article

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