Distribution of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato in China

We genotyped 102 Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains isolated from ticks, animals, and patients in 11 provinces in China by PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) amplification of 5S (rrf)-23S (rrl) rRNA gene spacer amplicons and multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA). The results...

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Published inJournal of Clinical Microbiology Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 647 - 650
Main Authors Hao, Qin, Hou, Xuexia, Geng, Zhen, Wan, Kanglin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Society for Microbiology 01.02.2011
Subjects
Animals
Bacteriology
Borrelia afzelii
Borrelia burgdorferi
Borrelia burgdorferi Group - classification
Borrelia burgdorferi Group - genetics
Borrelia burgdorferi Group - isolation & purification
Borrelia garinii
Borrelia valaisiana
China
DNA, Bacterial - genetics
Genotype
Humans
Ixodidae
Lyme Disease - microbiology
Molecular Sequence Data
Phylogeography
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Ticks - microbiology
China
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Summary:We genotyped 102 Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains isolated from ticks, animals, and patients in 11 provinces in China by PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) amplification of 5S (rrf)-23S (rrl) rRNA gene spacer amplicons and multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA). The results showed that Borrelia garinii was the main genotype in China (65/102) and that it was distributed mainly in northern China. Borrelia afzelii was the second most frequently found species (22/102), and it was distributed in both northern and southern China. All Borrelia valaisiana strains were isolated from Guizhou Province. Additionally, one B. burgdorferi strain was isolated from Hunan Province. Our results show the diversity and wide distribution of B. burgdorferi sensu lato in China.
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ISSN:0095-1137
1098-660X
DOI:10.1128/jcm.00725-10