Open AccessNo Evidence for Contamination of Borrelia Blood Cultures: a Review of Facts
Author(s) -
Alan B. MacDonald
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of clinical microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.349
H-Index - 255
eISSN - 1070-633X
pISSN - 0095-1137
DOI - 10.1128/jcm.02275-13
Subject(s) - borrelia , contamination , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , blood culture , virology , borrelia burgdorferi , immunology , antibiotics , antibody , ecology
Fact checking of the recent report of Johnson et al. of the CDC ([1][1]) discloses errors of fact and misrepresentations in their critique of the work of Sapi et al. ([2][2]). The CDC authors have produced three 603-base nucleotide haplotypes (partial sequences for PyrG open reading frame gene
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