Borrelia tanukii explained

Borrelia tanukii is a spirochete bacterium first isolated from specimens of Ixodes tanuki, hence its name.^[1]

Further reading

• Masuzawa T, Komikado T, Kaneda K, Fukui T, Sawaki K, Yanagihara Y . Homogeneity of Borrelia japonica and heterogeneity of Borrelia afzelii and 'Borrelia tanukii' isolated in Japan, determined from ospC gene sequences . . 153 . 2 . 287–93 . August 1997 . 9271854 . 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1997.tb12587.x. free .
• Hiraoka H, Shimada Y, Sakata Y, etal . Detection of Borrelia garinii, Borrelia tanukii and Borrelia sp. closely related to Borrelia valaisiana in Ixodes ticks removed from dogs and cats in Japan . . 144 . 1–2 . 188–92 . March 2007 . 17049744 . 10.1016/j.vetpar.2005.05.073 .

External links

• NCBI Taxonomy Browser - Borrelia

Notes and References

1. Fukunaga M, Hamase A, Okada K, Nakao M . Borrelia tanukii sp. nov. and Borrelia turdae sp. nov. found from ixodid ticks in Japan: rapid species identification by 16S rRNA gene-targeted PCR analysis . . 40 . 11 . 877–81 . 1996 . 8985944 . 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1996.tb01154.x. 34606255 . free .