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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2017
The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ (US);
Elizabeth Driebe, Flagstaff, AZ (US);
Paul S. Keim, Flagstaff, AZ (US);
David Engelthaler, Flagstaff, AZ (US);
Jolene Bowers, Flagstaff, AZ (US);
Nathan C. Nieto, Flagstaff, AZ (US);
The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to method of detecting and characterizing one or morespecies causing Lyme Disease or tick-borne relapsing fever within a sample from a subject, the method comprising: a) subjecting DNA and/or RNA from the sample to a PCR amplification reaction using primer pairs targeting at least one region of16S rRNA and at least one region of flaB, ospA, ospB, ospC, glpQ, 16S-23S intergenic spacer (IGS1), 5S-23S intergenic spacer (IGS2), bbk32, dbpA, dbpB, and/or p66; and b) analyzing amplification products resulting from the PCR amplification reaction to detect the one or morespecies.