Borrelia andersonii
Appearance
Borrelia andersonii | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Spirochaetota |
Class: | Spirochaetia |
Order: | Spirochaetales |
Family: | Borreliaceae |
Genus: | Borrelia |
Species: | B. andersonii
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Binomial name | |
Borrelia andersonii Marconi et al. 1995
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Borrelia andersonii is a spirochete bacterium. It can be pathogenic, being involved in cases of Lyme borreliosis.[1][2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Kerry L. Clark; Brian Leydet; Shirley Hartman (2013). "Lyme Borreliosis in Human Patients in Florida and Georgia, USA". Int J Med Sci. 10 (7): 915–931. doi:10.7150/ijms.6273. ISSN 1449-1907. PMC 3675506. PMID 23781138.
- ^ Marconi RT, Liveris D, Schwartz I (September 1995). "Identification of novel insertion elements, restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns, and discontinuous 23S rRNA in Lyme disease spirochetes: phylogenetic analyses of rRNA genes and their intergenic spacers in Borrelia japonica sp. nov. and genomic group 21038 (Borrelia andersonii sp. nov.) isolates". Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 33 (9): 2427–34. doi:10.1128/JCM.33.9.2427-2434.1995. PMC 228430. PMID 7494041.
Further reading
[edit]- Hamer, Sarah A; Hickling, Graham J; Keith, Rich; Sidge, Jennifer L; Walker, Edward D; Tsao, Jean I (2012). "Associations of passerine birds, rabbits, and ticks with Borrelia miyamotoi and Borrelia andersonii in Michigan, U.S.A." Parasites & Vectors. 5 (1): 231. doi:10.1186/1756-3305-5-231. ISSN 1756-3305. PMC 3497883. PMID 23057837.
- Stanek G, Reiter M (April 2011). "The expanding Lyme Borrelia complex--clinical significance of genomic species?". Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 17 (4): 487–93. doi:10.1111/j.1469-0691.2011.03492.x. PMID 21414082.
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