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International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary MicrobiologyVolume 67, Issue 4, April 2017, Article number 001717, Pages 1081-1084

There is inadequate evidence to support the division of the genus Borrelia(Letter)(Open Access)

  • Margos, G.,
  • Marosevic, D.,
  • Cutler, S.,
  • Derdakova, M.,
  • Diuk-Wasser, M.,
  • Emler, S.,
  • Fish, D.,
  • Gray, J.,
  • Hunfeldt, K.-P.,
  • Jaulhac, B.,
  • Kahl, O.,
  • Kovalev, S.,
  • Kraiczy, P.,
  • Lane, R.S.,
  • Lienhard, R.,
  • Lindgren, P.E.,
  • Ogden, N.,
  • Ornstein, K.,
  • Rupprecht, T.,
  • Schwartz, I.,
  • Sing, A.,
  • Straubinger, R.K.,
  • Strle, F.,
  • Voordouw, M.,
  • Rizzoli, A.,
  • Stevenson, B.,
  • Fingerle, V.
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  • aNational Reference Centre for Borrelia, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Veterinärstr. 2, Oberschleißheim, 85764, Germany
  • bPublic Health Microbiology Training, European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden
  • cSchool of Health Sport and Bioscience, University of East London, Water Lane, London, United Kingdom
  • dDepartment of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
  • eDepartment of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, United States
  • fSmartGene Services SARL, Innovation Park, Building C, EPFL-Ecublens, Lausanne, CH-1015, Switzerland
  • gYale School of Public Health, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510, United States
  • hEmeritus Professor of Animal Parasitology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
  • iMembers of the Steering Committee of the ESCMID Study Group for Borrelia (ESGBOR), Germany
  • jZentralinstitut für Labormedizin, Mikrobiologie and Krankenhaushygiene, Krankenhaus Nordwest, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Steinbacher Hohl 2-26, Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, D-60488, Germany
  • kLaboratoire de Bactériologie, CNR des Borrelia, Plateau Technique de Microbiologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg et Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg, 1 rue Koeberlé, Strasbourg, 67000, France
  • lTick-radar GmbH, Haderslebener Str. 9, Berlin, 12163, Germany
  • mMolecular Genetics Lab (www.dnk-ural.ru) Biology Department, Ural Federal University, The first President of Russia B.N.Yeltsin, Lenin Avenue, Yekaterinburg, 620000, Russian Federation
  • nInstitute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital Frankfurt, Paul-Ehrlich-Str/Main 40, Frankfurt, 60596, Germany
  • oEnvironmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California Berkeley, 130 Mulford Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
  • pBorrelia Laboratory, National Reference Centre of Tick Diseases (CNRT/NRZK), ADMed Microbiology, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 2303, Switzerland
  • qDivision of Medical Microbiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
  • rPublic Health Risk Sciences Division, National Microbiology Laboratory, Saint-Hyacinthe and Guelph, Public Health Agency of Canada, Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada
  • sClinical and Experimental Infectious Medicine Section, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden
  • tKlinikum Dachau, Abt. Neurology u. Schlafmedizinisches Zentrum, Krankenhausstr. 15, Dachau, 8521, Germany
  • uDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, New York Medical College, Basic Sciences Building, Valhalla, NY 10595, United States
  • vDepartment of Veterinary Science, Veterinary Faculty, LMU Munich, Veterinärstraße, 13, München, 80539, Germany
  • wDepartment of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • xUniversité de Neuchâtel, Institut de Biologie, Laboratoire d’Ecologie et Evolution des Parasites, Rue Emile-Argand 11, Neuchâtel, CH-2000, Switzerland
  • yFondazione Edmund Mach, Research and Innovation Centre, Via Mach, 1, San Michele all’Adige, Trento, Italy
  • zDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky, College of Medicine, MS421 Chandler Medical Center, Lexington, KY 40536-0298, United States

Abstract

[No abstract available]

Author keywords

BorreliaBorrelia burgdorferi sensu latoBorreliellaRelapsing fever Borrelia

Indexed keywords

EMTREE drug terms:bacterial proteinbacterial DNAfatty acidRNA 16S
EMTREE medical terms:BorreliaBorrelia burgdorferiBorrelia infectionBorrelia recurrentisDNA base compositiongenetic differenceLetterLyme diseasemolecular phylogenynonhumanpriority journalspirochetebacterium identificationBorreliaclassificationDNA sequencemolecular geneticsphylogeny
MeSH:Bacterial Typing TechniquesBase CompositionBorreliaDNA, BacterialFatty AcidsMolecular Sequence DataPhylogenyRNA, Ribosomal, 16SSequence Analysis, DNA

Chemicals and CAS Registry Numbers:

DNA, Bacterial; Fatty Acids; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S

  • ISSN: 14665026
  • CODEN: ISEMF
  • Source Type: Journal
  • Original language: English
  • DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.001717
  • PubMed ID: 27930271
  • Document Type: Letter
  • Publisher: Microbiology Society

  Margos, G.; National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Veterinärstr. 2, Oberschleißheim, Germany;
© Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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