Article
Metagenomic 16S rRNA gene sequencing survey of Borrelia species in Irish samples of Ixodes ricinus ticks
2018-12-14
Abstract excerpt
Lyme borreliosis is a systemic infection caused by tick-borne pathogenic borreliae of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex or of the more heterogeneous relapsing fever borrelia group. Clinical distinction of the infections due to different borrelia species is difficult. Accurate knowledge of the prevalence and the species of borreliae in the infected ticks in the endemic areas is valuable for formulating ap...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 4d420eaf-a943-5a58-b5ad-69d616aa9242
- DOI
- 10.1101/496950
