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Stephen Murdoch, J.N. Robertson, Lisa Foster, and Steve M. Green
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medicine.diagnostic_test ,biology ,Erythema ,Epidemiology ,business.industry ,Spirochaetaceae ,bacterial infections and mycoses ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,Virology ,Serology ,Lyme disease ,parasitic diseases ,Skin biopsy ,medicine ,Spirochaete ,Erythema migrans ,medicine.symptom ,Borrelia burgdorferi ,business - Abstract
Skin biopsies taken from UK cases of erythema migrans rash were cultured for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato. Reverse line blotting was used to type the infecting genospecies in PCR-positive cultures and biopsies. B. garinii or B. afzelii was identified in 56% (5/9) of biopsies/cultures tested. All patients were tested by conventional serology. PCR confirmed infection in two patients where serological testing failed to detect antibody.
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- 1999
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