Common ancestry of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains from North America and Europe

Authors
Postic, D Ras, NM Lane, RS Humair, PF Wittenbrink, MM Baranton, G
Citation
D. Postic et al., Common ancestry of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains from North America and Europe, J CLIN MICR, 37(9), 1999, pp. 3010-3012
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Clinical Immunolgy & Infectious Disease",Microbiology
Journal title
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
ISSN journal
00951137 → ACNP
Volume
37
Issue
9
Year of publication
1999
Pages
3010 - 3012
Database
ISI
SICI code
0095-1137(199909)37:9<3010:CAOBBS>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
Ten atypical European Borrelia burgdorferi sensu late (Borrelia spp.) strai ns were genetically characterized, and the diversity was compared to that e ncountered among related Borrelia spp. from North America. Phylogenetic ana lyses of a limited region of the genome and of the whole genome extend exis ting knowledge about borrelial diversity reported earlier in Europe and the United States. Our results accord with the evidence that North American an d European strains may have a common ancestry.