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Three Multiplex Assays for Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and Borrelia miyamotoi sensu lato in Field-Collected Ixodes Nymphs in North America
1 Nov 2005
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Two hundred fifty New Jersey field-collected Ixodes scapularis Say ticks and 17 Colorado Ixodes spinipalpis Hadwen & Nuttall ticks were tested using three separate multiplex real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays. One assay targets the rrs-rrlA IGS region of Borrelia spp. to detect Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) and Borrelia miyamotoi s.l. The second assay targets the ospA region of B....
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