Borrelia andersonii explained

Borrelia andersonii is a spirochete bacterium. It can be pathogenic, being involved in cases of Lyme borreliosis.^{[1] [2]}

See also

• Lyme disease microbiology

Further reading

• Hamer. Sarah A. Hickling. Graham J. Keith. Rich. Sidge. Jennifer L. Walker. Edward D. Tsao. Jean I. Associations of passerine birds, rabbits, and ticks with Borrelia miyamotoi and Borrelia andersonii in Michigan, U.S.A.. Parasites & Vectors. 5. 1. 2012. 231. 1756-3305. 10.1186/1756-3305-5-231. 23057837. 3497883 . free .
• Stanek G, Reiter M . The expanding Lyme Borrelia complex--clinical significance of genomic species? . Clinical Microbiology and Infection . 17 . 4 . 487–93 . April 2011 . 21414082 . 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2011.03492.x . free .

External links

• NCBI Taxonomy Browser - Borrelia

Notes and References

1. 10.7150/ijms.6273 . 23781138 . 3675506 . Lyme Borreliosis in Human Patients in Florida and Georgia, USA . Kerry L. Clark . Brian Leydet . Shirley Hartman . Int J Med Sci . 2013 . 10 . 7 . 915–931 . 1449-1907.
2. Marconi RT, Liveris D, Schwartz I . 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 . . 33 . 9 . 2427–34 . September 1995 . 10.1128/JCM.33.9.2427-2434.1995 . 7494041 . 228430 .