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Specificities and sensitivities of four monoclonal antibodies for typing of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato isolates.
Clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology - 1 Mar 2001
Bretz A G, Ryffel K, Hutter P, Dayer E, Péter O
Abstract excerpt
Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme borreliosis, is genetically more heterogeneous than previously thought. In Europe five genospecies have been described from the original B. burgdorferi sensu lato (sl): B. burgdorferi sensu stricto (ss), B. garinii, B. afzelii, B. lusitaniae, and B. valaisiana. In the United States, B. burgdorferi ss as well as B. bissettii in California and B. andersonii on the East Coast...
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