title: Characterization of Borrelia afzelii isolated from Ixodes nipponensis and Apodemus agrarius in Chungju, Korea, by PCR-rFLP analyses of ospC gene and rrf (5S)-rrl (23S) intergenic spacer.
abstract: Nine Borrelia afzelii strains, which had been isolated from two vectors, Ixodes nipponensis and Apodemus agrarius in Chungju, Korea, were characterized by PCR-RFLP analyses of ospC genes and rrf (5S)-rrl (23S) intergenic spacer. DraI restriction patterns of Chungju strains were identical to those of B. afzelii VS461. But MseI restriction patterns of rrf (5S)-rrl (23S) intergenic spacer genes of KK2, KM4, KK5 differed from those of previously reported B. burgdorferi sensu lato strains. Nine Chungju strains were classified with four distinct ospC RFLP patterns, which differed from the eight ospC RFLP patterns (A-1 to A-8) of previously reported B. afzelii. Moreover, five additional restriction patterns were deduced from published ospC sequences of reference strains. These results suggest that Chungju strains are very heterogeneous.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Konkuk University, Chungju, Chungchongbuk-Do 380-701, Korea.
authors.forename: Seung-Hyun
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Kwang-Don
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: Jung-Hee
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Sang-Choin
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jong-Hyun
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Won-Jong
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Jang
authors.forename: Kyung-Hee
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Park
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D015748:Borrelia burgdorferi Group / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D021903:DNA, Ribosomal Spacer / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D018884:Ixodes / Q000382:microbiology*; D007723:Korea; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009115:Muridae / Q000382:microbiology*; D010802:Phylogeny; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D021903:DNA, Ribosomal Spacer; C079616:OspC protein