Lyme disease in China
By Linda on Dec 30, 2010 in Infections
Excerpt:
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)
ribosomal DNA spacer amplicons and multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA). The
results showed that B. garinii was the main genotype in China (65/102), and
it was mainly distributed in northern China. B. afzelii was the second
(22/102), and it was distributed in both northern and southern China. All B.
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.
