Volume 11, Number 11—November 2005
Research
Typing African Relapsing Fever Spirochetes
Julie Christine Scott*, David Julian Maurice Wright*, and Sally Jane Cutler†
Table 3
Intergenic spacer sequence diversity among 757–762 bp Borrelia spp., DQ000284–DQ000286
| Strain | Location |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 133 | 224 | 255 | 290 | 336 | 337 | 347 | 402–5 | 424 | 512 | 520 | |
| Type 1 (IM/16) | C | G | G | A | – | – | T | – | C | A | C |
| Type 2 (IM/19) | T | A | A | G | T | A | T | – | C | G | T |
| Type 3 (IK/23) | C | A | G | G | T | G | – | TAGA | T | G | T |
| Consensus sequence | C | A | G | G | T | X | T | – | C | G | T |
