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. 2008 Apr 7;76(6):2498–2511. doi: 10.1128/IAI.01583-07

TABLE 3.

Southern blotting and PCR summary for diverse Borrelia spp.

Species (isolate) Resulta of indicated procedureb for gene:
BBA64
BBA65
BBA66
BBA71
BBA73
SB PCR
SB PCR
SB PCR
SB PCR
SB PCR
ps 1 ps 2 ps 3 ps 1 ps 2 ps 3 ps 1 ps 2 ps 3 ps 1 ps 2 ps 3 ps 1 ps 2 ps 3
B. burgdorferi + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
B. californiensis + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
B. afzelii ± + + + + + + + + + + +
B. garinii ± + + + ± ± + + + +
B. japonica (HO14) + + + + + + + + + + +
B. japonica (IKA2) + + +
B. andersonii + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
B. valaisiana + + + + + + + + + + +
B. aserina + + + + +
B. crocidurae + + + +
B. parkeri + + + +
B. turicatae + + +
B. hermsii + + + + + +
a

+, PCR product or strong hybridizing band; −, no PCR product or hybridizing band; ±, weak hybridizing band of appropriate size.

b

SB, Southern blotting (Fig. 5A); ps, primer set (Fig. 5B).