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Genetic diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato isolated in far eastern Russia.
Microbiology and immunology - 1 Jan 1997
Masuzawa T, Iwaki A, Sato Y, Miyamoto K, Korenberg E I, Yanagihara Y
Abstract excerpt
One-hundred and fifty-seven Borrelia isolated from adult ticks, Ixodes persulcatus, and wild rodents, Clethrionomys rufocanus and Apodemus peninsulae, in the far eastern part of Russia were characterized and identified by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) of the 5S-23S rRNA intergenic spacer. Some isolates showed unique RFLP patterns and were determined as Borrelia garinii on the basis of a sequence...
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