A divergent spirochete strain isolated from a resident of the southeastern United States was identified by multilocus sequence typing as Borrelia bissettii.

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Golovchenko, Maryna ^a,b   Vancová, Marie ^a   Clark, Kerry ^c   Oliver, James H ^b   Grubhoffer, Libor ^a,d   Rudenko, Nataliia ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Borrelia; Borrelia bissettii; divergent strain; live spirochete; MLST analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BISSETTII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA CAROLINENSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC DISTANCE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; LYME DISEASE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPIROCHETE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TICK; UNITED STATES; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ESSENTIAL GENE; FLORIDA; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEORGIA; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FLORIDA; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENOTYPE; GEORGIA; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 84959548674     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-016-1353-4     Document Type: Article

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