Collares-Pereira M, Couceiro S, Franca I, Kurtenbach K, Schäfer S M, Vitorino L, Gonçalves L, Baptista S, Vieira M L, Cunha C
Unidade de Leptospirose e Borreliose de Lyme, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
J Clin Microbiol. 2004 Mar;42(3):1316-8. doi: 10.1128/JCM.42.3.1316-1318.2004.
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.
描述了从一名疑似莱姆病的葡萄牙患者身上分离出的第一株葡萄牙疏螺旋体。该分离株来自慢性皮肤病变,也是葡萄牙第一株人类分离的疏螺旋体。采用了不同的表型和分子方法对其进行鉴定。