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Alternative Title:
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol
Publisher's site:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000897
Personal Author:
Margos, Gabriele ; Lane, Robert S. ; Fedorova, Natalia ; Koloczek, Johannes ; Piesman, Joseph ; ... More +
Margos, Gabriele ; Lane, Robert S. ; Fedorova, Natalia ; Koloczek, Johannes ; Piesman, Joseph ; Hojgaard, Andrias ; Sing, Andreas ; Fingerle, Volker Less -
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Two species of the genus Borrelia, Borrelia bissettiae sp. nov. and Borrelia californiensis sp. nov., were first described by Postic and co-workers on the basis of genetic analyses of several loci. Multilocus sequence analysis of eight housekeeping loci confirmed that these two Borrelia genomospecies are distinct members of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex. B. bissettiae sp. nov. was initially described in transmission cycles involving Neotoma fuscipes wood rats and Ixodes pacificus ticks in California, and Neotoma mexicana and Ixodes spinipalpis in Colorado. The preferred host of B. californiensis sp. nov. appears to be the California kangaroo rat, Dipodomys californicus; Ixodes jellisoni, I. spinipalipis and I. pacificus ticks are naturally infected with it. Thus, the ecological associations of the two genomospecies and their genetic distance from all other known Borrelia genomospecies species justify their description as separate genomospecies: B. bissettiae sp. nov. (type strain DN127T = DSM 17990T =  CIP 109136T) and B. californiensis (type strain CA446T = DSM 17989T = ATCC BAA-2689T).
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Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 66(3):1447-1452.
Pubmed ID:
26813420
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC5801759
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States ; R01 AI022501/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States
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