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Phylogenesis of relapsing fever Borrelia spp.
International journal of systematic bacteriology - 1 Oct 1996
Ras N M, Lascola B, Postic D, Cutler S J, Rodhain F, Baranton G, Raoult D
Abstract excerpt
The phylogenetic relationships of 20 relapsing fever (RF) Borrelia spp. were estimated on the basis of the sequences of rrs genes. Complete sequences were aligned and compared with previously published sequences, and the similarity values were found to be 97.7 to 99.9%. Phylogenetic trees were constructed by using the three neighbor-joining, maximum-parsimony, and maximum-likelihood methods. The results of the...
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