Molecular polymorphism of the lyme disease agent Borrelia garinii in northern Europe is influenced by a novel enzootic Borrelia focus in the North Atlantic

• Published in: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
• Main Authors: Bunikis, J, Olsén, B, Fingerle, V, Bonnedahl, J, Wilske, B, Bergström, S
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 1996
• Subjects: Microbiology (medical); Ospa; North Atlantic; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jcm.34.2.364-368.1996; https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/jcm.34.2.364-368.1996

Lyme disease Borrelia species are distributed in temperate areas of North America and Eurasia. To elucidate the distribution of borreliae in subarctic regions, strains isolated from Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes uriae ticks found on islands in the northern Atlantic and Baltic Sea were molecularly charac...