Abstract
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.
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Dates
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Created | 21 years, 5 months ago (March 5, 2004, 6:57 p.m.) |
Deposited | 3 years, 5 months ago (March 4, 2022, 10:04 p.m.) |
Indexed | 1 month, 1 week ago (July 24, 2025, 7:52 a.m.) |
Issued | 21 years, 6 months ago (March 1, 2004) |
Published | 21 years, 6 months ago (March 1, 2004) |
Published Print | 21 years, 6 months ago (March 1, 2004) |
@article{Collares_Pereira_2004, title={First Isolation of Borrelia lusitaniae from a Human Patient}, volume={42}, ISSN={1098-660X}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jcm.42.3.1316-1318.2004}, DOI={10.1128/jcm.42.3.1316-1318.2004}, number={3}, journal={Journal of Clinical Microbiology}, publisher={American Society for Microbiology}, author={Collares-Pereira, M. and Couceiro, S. and Franca, I. and Kurtenbach, K. and Schäfer, S. M. and Vitorino, L. and Gonçalves, L. and Baptista, S. and Vieira, M. L. and Cunha, C.}, year={2004}, month=mar, pages={1316–1318} }