Article
Genotypic and phenotypic diversity among nine Swiss isolates of Borrelia burgdorferi.
Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie : international journal of medical microbiology - 1 Jun 1993
Meister-Turner J, Filipuzzi-Jenny E, Péter O, Bretz A G, Stålhammar-Carlemalm M, Meyer J
Abstract excerpt
Nine strains of Borrelia burgdorferi isolated from ticks in the canton of Valais (Switzerland) were characterized genotypically by determining restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP) and plasmid profiles. The strains were also compared with respect to presence and electrophoretic mobilit...
Topics
- Animals
- Antigens, Bacterial
- Borrelia burgdorferi Group
- DNA, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Immunoblotting
- Phenotype
- Plasmids
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Switzerland
- Ticks