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First isolation of Borrelia lusitaniae from a human patient
M Collares-Pereira1, S Couceiro, I Franca
1Unidade de Leptospirose e Borreliose de Lyme, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. mcp@ihmt.unl.pt
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|March 9, 2004
Abstract:
The first human isolate of Borrelia lusitaniae recovered from a Portuguese patient with suspected Lyme borreliosis is described. This isolate, from a chronic skin lesion, is also the first human isolate of Borrelia in Portugal. Different phenotypic and molecular methods are used to characterize it.
