Unique strain of Borrelia miyamotoi in Ixodes pacificus Ticks, California, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2205-2207

  Cook, Vanessa J ^a   Fedorova, Natalia ^b   Macdonald, Warren P ^c   Lane, Robert S ^b   Barbour, Alan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c San Mateo County Mosquito and Vector Control District   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; LETTER; LYME DISEASE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; ARACHNID VECTOR; BACTERIAL GENE; CALIFORNIA; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA; CALIFORNIA; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84995933111     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2212.152046     Document Type: Letter

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