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Culturing selects for specific genotypes of Borrelia burgdorferi in an enzootic cycle in Colorado.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 1997
Norris D E, Johnson B J, Piesman J, Maupin G O, Clark J L, Black W C
Abstract excerpt
In Colorado, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, the etiologic agent of Lyme disease, is maintained in an enzootic cycle between Ixodes spinipalpis ticks and Neotoma mexicana rats (27). The frequencies of flagellin (fla), 66-kDa protein (p66), and outer surface protein A (ospA) alleles were examined in 71 B. burgdorferi isolates from samples from Colorado. Approximately two-thirds of these samples were isolates...
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