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Genetic diversity and the absence of regional differences of Borrelia garinii as demonstrated by ospA and ospB gene sequence analysis.
Microbiology and immunology - 1 Jan 1999
Yabuki M, Nakao M, Fukunaga M
Abstract excerpt
Unfed adult Ixodes persulcatus ticks were collected from four locations of Nagano and Hokkaido in Japan. Infected Borrelia garinii were investigated by PCR-RFLP of the ospA and ospB gene sequences. The primer set amplified an approximately 1.6-kb DNA fragment (0.7-kb in some strains), and BsrI, BstYI, or NlaIII digestion of the product resulted in six distinctively different PCR-RFLP groups and two independent...
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