First isolation of Borrelia lusitaniae from a human patient.

ABSTRACT: The first human isolate of Borrelia lusitaniae recovered from a Portuguese patient with suspected Lyme borreliosis is described. This isolate, from a chronic skin lesion, is also the first human isolate of Borrelia in Portugal. Different phenotypic and molecular methods are used to characterize it.

SUBMITTER: Collares-Pereira M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC356816 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature