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Borrelia burgdorferi genotype predicts the capacity for hematogenous dissemination during early Lyme disease.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Nov 2008
Wormser Gary P, Brisson Dustin, Liveris Dionysios, Hanincová Klára, Sandigursky Sabina, Nowakowski John, Nadelman Robert B, Ludin Sara, Schwartz Ira
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Lyme disease, the most common tickborne disease in the United States, is caused exclusively by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto in North America. The present study evaluated the genotypes of >400 clinical isolates of B. burgdorferi recovered from patients from suburban New York City with early Lyme disease associated with erythema migrans; it is the largest number of borrelial strains from North...
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