Identifying Relapsing Fever Borrelia, Senegal
We describe a nested polymerase chain reaction for the identification of Borrelia species from serum of patients with unidentified fevers. This technique, based on single nucleotide polymorphisms of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene, was used to test blood samples from 7,750 patients, 33 of whom were diagn...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2005-03-01
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| Series: | Emerging Infectious Diseases |
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| Online Access: | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/3/04-0506_article |