| Species/Subspecies: | Borrelia theileri | ||||||||
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| Category: | Motile | ||||||||
| Etymology: | Genus name: named after the French bacteriologist Amédée Borrel (1867-1936). Species epithet: named after the Swiss veterinarian Arnold Theiler, who is regarded as the father of veterinary medicine in South Africa. | ||||||||
| Significance: | Borrelia theileri is more important in tropical countries than in Sweden. [Of minor importance] |
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| Taxonomy: | Class Spirochaetia Order Spirochaetales Family Spirochaetaceae Genus Borrelia |
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| Type Strain: | There is no defined culture of this species. | ||||||||
| Macromorphology (smell): | |||||||||
| Micromorphology: | Borrelia spp. have a planar flat-wave morphology. | ||||||||
| Gram +/Gram -: | G-, but difficult to stain. | ||||||||
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| Vector: | African blue tick (Ripicephalus decoloratus) and some other closely related tick species. | ||||||||
| Disease: | Bovine borreliosis |
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| Hosts: | Ruminants and horse. | ||||||||
| Clinical Picture: | Fever and anemia. | ||||||||
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| Taxonomy/phylogeny:
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About 40 species have been described within genus Borrelia and the species that have been included in VetBact form two monophyletic clusters. See Fig. 233:1. | ||||||||
| Updated: | 2023-03-08 |