Genetic Diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato in Ticks from Mainland Portugal

To date Borrelia lusitaniae is the only genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato isolated from Ixodes ricinus ticks collected in Portugal and Tunisia. This suggests that the genospecies diversity of B. burgdorferi sensu lato decreases toward the southwestern margin of its Old World subtropical...

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Main Authors: De Michelis, Simona, Sewell, Henna-Sisko, Collares-Pereira, Margarida, Santos-Reis, Margarida, Schouls, Leo M., Benes, Vladimir, Holmes, Edward C., Kurtenbach, Klaus
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2000
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Bacteriology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC86744/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10834965
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