Article
Genetic and phenotypic analysis of Borrelia valaisiana sp. nov. (Borrelia genomic groups VS116 and M19).
International journal of systematic bacteriology - 1 Oct 1997
Wang G, van Dam A P, Le Fleche A, Postic D, Peter O, Baranton G, de Boer R, Spanjaard L, Dankert J
Abstract excerpt
To clarify the taxonomic status of two recently described Borrelia genomic groups, groups VS116 and M19, three group VS116 strains and eight group M19 strains isolated from Ixodes ricinus ticks in Switzerland, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom were characterized. PCR-restriction fragment le...
Topics
- Bacterial Proteins
- Blotting, Southern
- Borrelia
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- RNA, Bacterial
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
- Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique