UUSI BB-ALALAJI IHMISESSÄ

[Bb]

Lähettäjä: Soijuv Lähetetty: 26.3.2004 10:26

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... s=15004107

J Clin Microbiol. 2004 Mar;42(3):1316-8.

*First isolation of Borrelia lusitaniae from a human patient.*

*Collares-Pereira M, Couceiro S, Franca I, Kurtenbach K, Schafer SM,
Vitorino L, Goncalves L, Baptista S, Vieira ML, Cunha C.*

Unidade de Leptospirose e Borreliose de Lyme, Instituto de Higiene e
Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
mcp@ihmt.unl.pt

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.

PMID: 15004107 [PubMed - in process]