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First Isolation of Borrelia lusitaniae from a Human Patient

2004; American Society for Microbiology; Volume: 42; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1128/jcm.42.3.1316-1318.2004

1098-660X

Maria João Collares‐Pereira, Sofia Couceiro, Isabel da Franca, Klaus Kurtenbach, Stefanie Schäfer, Liliana Vitorino, Lígia Antunes Gonçalves, Susana Baptista, Maria Luísa Vieira, Celso Cunha,

Vector-Borne Animal Diseases

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.