| Species/Subspecies: | Borrelia garinii | ||||||||
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| Category: | Motile | ||||||||
| Etymology: | Genus name: named after the French bacteriologist Amédée Borrel (1867-1936). Species epithet: named after the French clinician Charles Garin, who in 1922 described neurological symptoms following tick bites. | ||||||||
| Significance: | [Important] | ||||||||
| Old Species Name(s): | Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato | ||||||||
| Taxonomy: | Class Spirochaetia Order Spirochaetales Family Spirochaetaceae Genus Borrelia |
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| Type Strain: | 20047 = ATCC 51383 | ||||||||
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| Micromorphology: | Spiral shaped (0.2-0.3 x 20-30 µm), motile and has endoflagella (axial filament) | ||||||||
| Gram +/Gram -: | G-, difficult to stain | ||||||||
| Metabolism: | Microaerophilic | ||||||||
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| Disease: | Lyme borreliosis (Lyme disease) |
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| Hosts: | Birds, mammals | ||||||||
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About 40 different species have been described within the genus Borrelia and about half of these (among others B. afzelii and B. garinii ave been affiliated to B. burgdorferi sensu lato, which means B. burgdorferi in a wider sense. B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, in this context, means only the species B. burgdorferi. | ||||||||
| Comment: | Vector borne (ticks) | ||||||||
| Updated: | 2016-02-10 |