Diversity of European Lyme Disease Spirochetes at the Southern Margin of Their Range
AUTOR(ES)
Matuschka, Franz-Rainer
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
We determined whether the genospecies diversity of Lyme disease spirochetes in vector ticks questing on a subtropical island is as broad as that in Central Europe. Although spirochetes infected <1% of the ticks sampled on Madeira Island, these infections included all three genospecies implicated in human disease. Therefore, spirochetal diversity is as great at the southern margin as it is in the center of this pathogen’s range.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=106265Documentos Relacionados
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