Multilocus Sequence Typing Implicates Rodents as the Main Reservoir Host of Human-Pathogenic Borrelia garinii in Japan

作者：Takano Ai; Nakao Minoru; Masuzawa Toshiyuki; Takada Nobuhiro; Yano Yasuhiro; Ishiguro Fubito; Fujita Hiromi; Ito Takuya; Ma Xiaohang; Oikawa Yozaburo; Kawamori Fumihiko; Kumagai Kunihiko; Mikami Toshiyuki; Hanaoka Nozomu; Ando Shuji; Honda Naoko; Taylor Kyle; Tsubota Toshio; Konnai Satoru; Watanabe Haruo; Ohnishi Makoto; Kawabata Hiroki^*

来源：Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2011, 49(5): 2035-2039.

DOI：10.1128/JCM.02544-10

Multilocus sequence typing of Borrelia garinii isolates from humans and comparison with rodent and tick isolates were performed. Fifty-nine isolates were divided into two phylogenetic groups, and an association was detected between clinical and rodent isolates, suggesting that, in Japan, human-pathogenic B. garinii comes from rodents via ticks.

• 出版日期2011-5
• 单位浙江大学