Borrelia bissettii

Borrelia bissettii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Spirochaetota
Class:	Spirochaetia
Order:	Spirochaetales
Family:	Borreliaceae
Genus:	Borrelia
Species:	B. bissettiae
Binomial name
Borrelia bissettiae Gupta 2019

Borrelia bissettiae (formerly B. bissettii, before renaming in 2019 ^[1] ) is a spirochete bacterium. ^[2] The type strain is strain DN127. It is pathogenic and causes Lyme borreliosis in the Americas and Eurasia. ^{[3] [4]}

See also

• Lyme disease microbiology

References

1. Gupta RS (2019-08-27). "Distinction between Borrelia and Borreliella is more robustly supported by molecular and phenotypic characteristics than all other neighbouring prokaryotic genera: Response to Margos' et al. "The genus Borrelia reloaded" (PLOS ONE 13(12): e0208432)". PLOS ONE. 14 (8) e0221397. Bibcode:2019PLoSO..1421397G. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0221397 . PMC   6711536 . PMID   31454394.
2. Postic D, Ras NM, Lane RS, Hendson M, Baranton G (December 1998). "Expanded diversity among Californian borrelia isolates and description of Borrelia bissettii sp. nov. (formerly Borrelia group DN127)". Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 36 (12): 3497–504. doi:10.1128/JCM.36.12.3497-3504.1998. PMC   105228 . PMID   9817861.
3. Schneider BS, Schriefer ME, Dietrich G, Dolan MC, Morshed MG, Zeidner NS (October 2008). "Borrelia bissettii isolates induce pathology in a murine model of disease". Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 8 (5): 623–33. doi:10.1089/vbz.2007.0251. PMID   18454594.
4. Wolcott KA, Margos G, Fingerle V, Becker NS (June 2021). "Host association of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato: A review". Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases. 12 (5) 101766. doi:10.1016/j.ttbdis.2021.101766. PMID   34161868.

Further reading

• Schneider BS, Zeidner NS, Burkot TR, Maupin GO, Piesman J (August 2000). "Borrelia isolates in Northern Colorado identified as Borrelia bissettii". Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 38 (8): 3103–5. doi:10.1128/JCM.38.8.3103-3105.2000. PMC   87200 . PMID   10921989.
• Schutzer SE, Fraser-Liggett CM, Qiu WG, Kraiczy P, Mongodin EF, Dunn JJ, Luft BJ, Casjens SR (January 2012). "Whole-genome sequences of Borrelia bissettii, Borrelia valaisiana, and Borrelia spielmanii". Journal of Bacteriology. 194 (2): 545–6. doi:10.1128/JB.06263-11. PMC   3256645 . PMID   22207749.

External links

• NCBI Taxonomy Browser - Borrelia
• "Borrelia bissettii". The Encyclopedia of Life .
• Type strain of Borrelia bissettii at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase