| population genetic analysis of serpulina pilosicoli and its molecular epidemiology in villages in the eastern highlands of papua new guinea. | the population genetics of serpulina pilosicoli and its molecular epidemiology in villages in the eastern highlands province of papua new guinea were investigated. multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (mlee) was used to analyse 164 isolates from humans and animals. these were divided into 33 electrophoretic types (ets), four of which contained 65% of the isolates. the mean genetic diversity (n = number of ets) for 145 human isolates was 0.18, and the mean number of alleles at five polymorphic loci ... | 1998 | 9734020 |