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Different genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi are associated with distinct clinical manifestations of Lyme borreliosis.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Oct 1993
van Dam A P, Kuiper H, Vos K, Widjojokusumo A, de Jongh B M, Spanjaard L, Ramselaar A C, Kramer M D, Dankert J
Abstract excerpt
Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato has been subdivided into three genospecies: B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, B. garinii, and B. burgdorferi group VS461. Sixty-eight isolates cultured from patients and 26 strains from ticks were characterized with use of SDS-PAGE, western blotting, and rRNA gene restriction analysis. Fifty-seven of 58 strains obtained from the skin of 70 patients who had erythema migrams or...
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