Monoclonal Antibodies for Identification of Borrelia afzelii sp. nov. Associated with Late Cutaneous Manifestations of Lyme Borreliosis

Manuela Caniça, Farida Nato, Laurence du Merle, +3

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Parasitic DiseaseBorrelia Afzelii SpMedicinePathogenesisSerologic Testing +12

Delineation of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species by multilocus sequence analysis and confirmation of the delineation of Borrelia spielmanii sp. nov.

D. Richter, Danièle Postic, Natacha Sertour, +3

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

BiologyDna BarcodingDna SequencingMultilocus Sequence AnalysisParasitic Disease +13

Multilocus sequence analysis of atypical Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato isolates – Description of Borrelia californiensis sp. nov., and genomospecies 1 and 2

Danièle Postic, Martine Garnier, G. Baranton

International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Borrelia Californiensis SpMultilocus Sequence AnalysisTick-borne DiseaseMicrobiologyGenomospecies 1

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto invasiveness is correlated with OspC–plasminogen affinity

Vanessa Lagal, D. Portnoï, Grazyna Faure, +2

Microbes and Infection

Parasitic DiseasePathogen TransmissionOspc–plasminogen AffinityPathogenesisPathology +8

Distinct levels of genetic diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi are associated with different aspects of pathogenicity

G. Baranton, Gerald Seinost, George H. Theodore, +2

Research in Microbiology

Genetic DiversityMolecular EpidemiologyPathogenesisGenetic EpidemiologyPathology +9

Prevalence of <i>Borrelia burgdorferi</i> Sensu Lato and <i>Anaplasmataceae</i> Members in <i>Ixodes ricinus</i> Ticks in Alsace, a Focus of Lyme Borreliosis Endemicity in France

Elisabeth Ferquel, Martine Garnier, Jérôme Marie, +4

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Ixodes Ricinus TicksVector-borne PathogenParasitic DiseasePathogenesisEntomology +9

Detection and Identification of <i>Ehrlichia</i> spp. in Ticks Collected in Tunisia and Morocco

M’hammed Sarih, Youmna M’ghirbi, Ali Bouattour, +3

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Genetic Diversity among <i>Borrelia</i> Strains Determined by Single-Strand Conformation Polymorphism Analysis of the <i>ospC</i> Gene and Its Association with Invasiveness

Vanessa Lagal, Danièle Postic, Eva Ružić‐Sabljić, +1

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Reservoir Role of Lizard &lt;I&gt;Psammodromus algirus&lt;/I&gt; in Transmission Cycle of &lt;I&gt;Borrelia burgdorferi&lt;/I&gt; Sensu Lato (Spirochaetaceae) in Tunisia

Najla Dsouli, Hend Younsi-kabachii, Danièle Postic, +3

Journal of Medical Entomology

BiologyNorthwestern TunisiaParasitic DiseasePhylogeneticsNatural Sciences +13

Interest of partial 16S rDNA gene sequences to resolve heterogeneities between collections: application to

Danièle Postic, Natacha Riquelme-Sertour, Fabrice Mérien, +2

Research in Microbiology

BiologyRdna Gene SequencesPartial 16SNatural SciencesGenetics +9