Multilocus sequence typing implicates rodents as the main reservoir host of human-pathogenic Borrelia garinii in Japan.

ABSTRACT: Multilocus sequence typing of Borrelia garinii isolates from humans and comparison with rodent and tick isolates were performed. Fifty-nine isolates were divided into two phylogenetic groups, and an association was detected between clinical and rodent isolates, suggesting that, in Japan, human-pathogenic B. garinii comes from rodents via ticks.

SUBMITTER: Takano A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3122701 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature