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Species/Subspecies: Borrelia garinii
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]   
Alternative Species Name(s):Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato
Taxonomy:
Phylum
Spirochaetota
Class
Spirochaetia
Order
Spirochaetales
Family
Spirochaetaceae 
Genus
Borrelia
Type Strain: 20047 = ATCC 51383
Macromorphology (smell):
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
Catalase/Oxidase:
Spec. Char.:
Disease:Lyme borreliosis (Lyme disease)
Hosts: Birds, mammals
Clinical Picture:
Genome Sequence:
Acc-noStrainSize (bp)Genome
NC_006156 PBi 0 904 246 1l + 2l 

16S rRNA Seq.:
Acc-noStrainNumber of NTOperon
X85199 (T) 1488 

Taxonomy/phylogeny:
 
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:2023-03-08

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