PHENOTYPIC AND GENOTYPIC ANALYSIS OF BORRELIA-BURGDORFERI ISOLATES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

被引:103
作者
ADAM, T [1 ]
GASSMANN, GS [1 ]
RASIAH, C [1 ]
GOBEL, UB [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV FREIBURG, INST MED MIKROBIOL & HYG, W-7800 FREIBURG, GERMANY
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10.1128/IAI.59.8.2579-2585.1991
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R392 [医学免疫学]; Q939.91 [免疫学];
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100102 ;
摘要
A total of 17 B. burgdorferi isolates from various sources were characterized by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of whole-cell proteins, restriction enzyme analysis, Southern hybridization with probes complementary to unique regions of evolutionarily conserved genes (16S rRNA and fla), and direct sequencing of in vitro polymerase chain reaction-amplified fragments of the 16S rRNA gene. Three groups were distinguished on the basis of phenotypic and genotypic traits, the latter traced to the nucleotide sequence level.
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