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Multilocus sequence analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. in Russia.
Ticks and tick-borne diseases - 1 Jun 2013
Mukhacheva Tatyana A, Kovalev Sergey Y
Abstract excerpt
Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato is a species complex that includes the causative agents of Lyme borreliosis (LB). Classification of the complex was greatly influenced by the method of multilocus sequence typing (MLST), proposed in 2008 and analyzing the spatial distribution of sequence types (STs). Despite the fact that Russia is the largest natural focus of LB to date, it is represented by only 3 strains of the...
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