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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, September 1999, p. 3010-3012, Vol. 37, No. 9
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Common Ancestry of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato Strains from North America and Europe

D. Postic,1,* N. Marti Ras,1 R. S. Lane,2 P.-F. Humair,3,dagger M. M. Wittenbrink,4 and G. Baranton1

Unité de Bactériologie Moléculaire et Médicale, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France1; Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Division of Insect Biology, University of California, Berkeley 947202; Département de Parasitologie, Institut de Zoologie, Neuchâtel, Switzerland3; and Institut für Veterinärbakteriologie der Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland4

Received 22 December 1998/Returned for modification 21 April 1999/Accepted 8 June 1999

Ten atypical European Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (Borrelia spp.) strains were genetically characterized, and the diversity was compared to that encountered among related Borrelia spp. from North America. Phylogenetic analyses of a limited region of the genome and of the whole genome extend existing knowledge about borrelial diversity reported earlier in Europe and the United States. Our results accord with the evidence that North American and European strains may have a common ancestry.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Unité de Bactériologie Moléculaire et Médicale, Institut Pasteur, 28 Rue du Docteur Roux, 75724 Paris cedex 15, France. Phone: 33 1 45 68 83 37. Fax: 33 1 40 61 30 01. E-mail: dpostic{at}pasteur.fr.

dagger Present address: Molecular Parasitology Unit, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Herston, Queensland 4029, Australia.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, September 1999, p. 3010-3012, Vol. 37, No. 9
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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