The Rare ospC Allele L of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Stricto, Commonly Found among Samples Collected in a Coastal Plain Area of the Southeastern United States, Is Associated with Ixodes affinis Ticks and Local Rodent Hosts Peromyscus gossypinus and Sigmodon hispidus

0392803 - BC 2014 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Rudenko, Natalia - Golovchenko, Maryna - Grubhoffer, Libor - Oliver, J. H., Jr.
The Rare ospC Allele L of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Stricto, Commonly Found among Samples Collected in a Coastal Plain Area of the Southeastern United States, Is Associated with Ixodes affinis Ticks and Local Rodent Hosts Peromyscus gossypinus and Sigmodon hispidus.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Roč. 79, č. 4 (2013), s. 1403-1406. ISSN 0099-2240. E-ISSN 1098-5336
Grant - others:NIH(US) R37AI-24899
Institutional support: RVO:60077344
Keywords : lyme disease * genetic diversity * scapularis tick * Acari * North Carolina * heterogenity * polymorphism * cultivation
Subject RIV: EB - Genetics ; Molecular Biology
Impact factor: 3.952, year: 2013

The rare ospC allele L was detected in 30% of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto strains cultured from a tick species, Ixodes affinis, and two rodent host species, Peromyscus gossypinus and Sigmodon hispidus, collected in a coastal plain area of Georgia and South Carolina, in the southeastern United States.
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