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Distribution of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in China.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Feb 2011
Hao Qin, Hou Xuexia, Geng Zhen, Wan Kanglin
Abstract excerpt
We genotyped 102 Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains isolated from ticks, animals, and patients in 11 provinces in China by PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) amplification of 5S (rrf)-23S (rrl) rRNA gene spacer amplicons and multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA). The results showed that Borrelia garinii was the main genotype in China (65/102) and that it was distributed mainly in northern...
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