Borrelia spielmanii explained

Borrelia spielmanii is a spirochete bacterium;^[1] it routinely infects Ixodes ricinus, and subsequently humans, causing Lyme disease.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Further reading

• Dieter. Heylen. Songbirds as general transmitters but selective amplifiers of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato genotypes in Ixodes rinicus ticks. Environmental Microbiology. 2014. 16. 9. 2859–2868. 10.1111/1462-2920.12304. 24118930.
• Herzberger. P.. Siegel. C.. Skerka. C.. Fingerle. V.. Schulte-Spechtel. U.. van Dam. A.. Wilske. B.. Brade. V.. Zipfel. P. F.. Wallich. R.. Kraiczy. P.. Human Pathogenic Borrelia spielmanii sp. nov. Resists Complement-Mediated Killing by Direct Binding of Immune Regulators Factor H and Factor H-Like Protein 1. Infection and Immunity. 75. 10. 2007. 4817–4825. 0019-9567. 10.1128/IAI.00532-07. 17635869. 2044541.
• Morgenstern. K.. Baljer. G.. Norris. D. E.. Kraiczy. P.. Hanssen-Hubner. C.. Hunfeld. K.-P.. In Vitro Susceptibility of Borrelia spielmanii to Antimicrobial Agents Commonly Used for Treatment of Lyme Disease. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 53. 3. 2008. 1281–1284. 0066-4804. 10.1128/AAC.01247-08. 19075048. 2650570.

External links

• NCBI Taxonomy Browser - Borrelia

Notes and References

1. Richter D, Postic D, Sertour N, Livey I, Matuschka FR, Baranton G . Delineation of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species by multilocus sequence analysis and confirmation of the delineation of Borrelia spielmanii sp. nov . . 56 . Pt 4 . 873–81 . April 2006 . 16585709 . 10.1099/ijs.0.64050-0 . free .
2. Fingerle. Volker. Schulte-Spechtel. Ulrike C.. Ruzic-Sabljic. Eva. Leonhard. Sarah. Hofmann. Heidelore. Weber. Klaus. Pfister. Kurt. Strle. Franc. Wilske. Bettina. Epidemiological aspects and molecular characterization of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. from southern Germany with special respect to the new species Borrelia spielmanii sp. nov. International Journal of Medical Microbiology. 298. 3–4. 2008. 279–290. 1438-4221. 10.1016/j.ijmm.2007.05.002. 17616434.
3. Maraspin. Vera. Ruzic-Sabljic. Eva. Strle. Franc. Lyme Borreliosis and Borrelia spielmanii. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 12. 7. 2006. 1177. 1080-6040. 10.3201/eid1207.060077. 16848050. 3291061.
4. Földvári, Gábor, Róbert Farkas, and András Lakos. "Borrelia spielmanii erythema migrans, Hungary." Emerging infectious diseases 11.11 (2005): 1794.