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Distinct levels of genetic diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi are associated with different aspects of pathogenicity.
Research in microbiology - 1 Mar 2001
Baranton G, Seinost G, Theodore G, Postic D, Dykhuizen D
Abstract excerpt
Different species of pathogenic Borrelia show different symptoms and tick vector specificity. Even within regions where only one species is found, Lyme disease progresses very differently from one patient to another. Since Borrelia shows very little recombination either within or between species, alleles of a gene can be used to mark clones. The ospC gene is highly variable within each species and can be used to...
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