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Borrelia bissettiae sp. nov. and Borrelia californiensis sp. nov. Prevail in Diverse Enzootic Transmission Cycles.
Margos G , Lane RS , Fedorova N , Koloczek J , Piesman J , Hojgaard A , Sing A , Fingerle V . Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016 66 (3) 1447-1452 Two Borrelia species, Borrelia bissettiae sp. nov. and Borrelia californiensis sp. nov., were first described by Postic and co-workers (Postic et al., 2007; Postic et al., 1998) based on genetic analyses of several loci. Multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) of eight housekeeping loci confirmed that these two Borrelia genospecies are distinct members of the B. burgdorferi s. l. complex (Margos et al., 2010). B. bissettiae sp. nov. initially was 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 genospecies and their genetic distance from all other known Borrelia genospecies species justify their validation as separate genospecies: B. bissettiae sp. nov. DN127T (= DSM 17990 T; = CIP 109136 T) and B. californiensis CA446T (= DSM 17989T; =ATCC BAA-2689TM). |
Borrelia kurtenbachii sp. nov., a widely distributed member of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species complex in North America
Margos G , Piesman J , Lane RS , Ogden NH , Sing A , Straubinger RK , Fingerle V . Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014 64 128-30 Lyme borreliosis group spirochaetes are parasitic bacteria transmitted by vector ticks of the genus Ixodes and distributed mainly between 40 degrees and 60 degrees northern latitudes. Since Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto (hereinafter, B. burgdorferi) was described in the north-eastern USA during the early 1980s, an increasing diversity has been noted within the species complex. Here, we describe a novel genomic species, Borrelia kurtenbachii sp. nov. (type strain 25015(T) = ATCC BAA-2495(T) = DSM 26572(T)), that is prevalent in transmission cycles among vector ticks and reservoir hosts in North America. Confirmation of the presence of this species in Europe awaits further investigation. |
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