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'Candidatus Borrelia texasensis', from the American dog tick Dermacentor variabilis.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Mar 2005
Lin Tao, Gao Lihui, Seyfang Andreas, Oliver James H
Abstract excerpt
TXW-1, a Borrelia strain isolated in March 1998 from an adult male Dermacentor variabilis tick feeding on a coyote from Webb county, Texas, USA, was characterized by using randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis, RFLP and sequence analysis of flaB and rrs (16S rRNA gene), DNA-DNA hybridization analysis, SDS-PAGE and Western blotting with mAbs. It shows different banding patterns in RFLP analysis of...
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