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SUBMITTER: Hao Q
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3043522 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hao Qin Q Hou Xuexia X Geng Zhen Z Wan Kanglin K
Journal of clinical microbiology 20101124 2
We genotyped 102 Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains isolated from ticks, animals, and patients in 11 provinces in China by PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) amplification of 5S (rrf)-23S (rrl) rRNA gene spacer amplicons and multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA). The results showed that Borrelia garinii was the main genotype in China (65/102) and that it was distributed mainly in northern China. Borrelia afzelii was the second most frequently found species (22/102), and i ...[more]