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    Borrelia burgdorferi is a bacterial species of the spirochete class in the genus Borrelia, and is one of the causative agents of Lyme disease in humans...
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    disease or Borreliosis. The major Borrelia species causing Lyme disease are Borrelia burgdorferi, Borrelia afzelii, and Borrelia garinii. All species that cause...
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    the bacterial species Borrelia burgdorferi and B. mayonii cause Lyme disease. In Europe and Asia, Borrelia afzelii, Borrelia garinii, B. spielmanii and...
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    bacteria from the genus Borrelia, which has 52 known species. Three species (Borrelia garinii, Borrelia afzelii, and Borrelia burgdorferi s.s.) are the main...
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    host to experience symptoms. Though D. variabilis may be exposed to Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, these ticks are not competent...
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    inactivates B. burgdorferi more quickly than the saliva of Ixodes scapularis. Recently the bacteria Borrelia andersonii and Borrelia americana have been...
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  • legged tick. Borrelia mayonii was identified as a sensu lato (broad sense), genospecies (Bbsl) of the known microbe, Borrelia burgdorferi. A genospecies...
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    be a competent reservoir for the Lyme disease–causing spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi. The white-footed mouse is the favored host for the parasitic botfly...
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    (between tick stages) passage of Borrelia burgdorferi is common. Vertical passage (from mother to egg) of Borrelia is uncommon.[citation needed] Like...
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    leptospirosis Borrelia burgdorferi, B. mayonii, B. bissettiae, B. garinii, B. afzelii, B. spielmanii, B. lusitaniae, which cause Lyme disease. Borrelia recurrentis...
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    bacterial pathogen that causes Lyme disease, a spirochete named Borrelia burgdorferi in his honor. Burgdorfer was born on June 27, 1925, in Basel, Switzerland...
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  • radiating from the spine. The disease is caused by an infection of Borrelia burgdorferi, a tick-borne spirochete bacterium also responsible for causing Lyme...
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    spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. Viral involvement of HPV and hepatitis C are also suspected. A link with Lyme disease is shown by the presence of Borrelia burgdorferi...
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  • Borrelia miyamotoi is a bacterium of the spirochete phylum in the genus Borrelia. A zoonotic organism, B. miyamotoi can infect humans through the bite...
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    chitin either enzymatically or chemically. Chitobiose is utilized by Borrelia burgdorferi to produce N-acetylglucosamine, a component of the bacterial cell...
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  • most places in the US, 30-50% of deer ticks will be infected with Borrelia burgdorferi (the agent of Lyme disease). Other pathogens are much more rare....
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    rail can be infected by the avian influenza virus and the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, carried by Ixodes ticks, which is also a human pathogen causing...
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    are other granulomatous diseases that can show similar histology. Borrelia burgdorferi, a bacterium that causes lyme disease, can affect multiple large...
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    pets or humans. In addition, cat fleas have been found to carry Borrelia burgdorferi, the etiologic agent of Lyme disease, but their ability to transmit...
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    bacterial survival in animal hosts, and perhaps in pathogenesis. Borrelia burgdorferi (responsible for Lyme disease) outer surface proteins play a role...
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    disease until the late 1990s. Several studies have failed to detect Borrelia burgdorferi, which is the causative agent of Lyme disease, in patients from the...
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  • Lyme encephalopathy: Arising from Lyme disease bacteria, including Borrelia burgdorferi. Toxic encephalopathy: A form of encephalopathy caused by chemicals...
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  • Schwartz I (July 2009). "Antibiotic treatment of animals infected with Borrelia burgdorferi". Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 22 (3): 387–95. doi:10.1128/CMR.00004-09...
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    bacterium called a spirochaete. The best-known culprit is Borrelia burgdorferi, but many different Borrelia species cause Lyme disease worldwide. An Australian...
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    TM include Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Bartonella henselae, and the types of Borrelia that cause Lyme disease. Lyme disease gives rise to neuroborreliosis which...
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  • "Delineation of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species by multilocus sequence analysis and confirmation of the delineation of Borrelia spielmanii sp....
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  • quintana Bordetella Bordetella bronchiseptica Bordetella pertussis Borrelia burgdorferi Brucella Brucella abortus Brucella melitensis Brucella suis Burkholderia...
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    of spirochete bacteria, including members of the genus Borrelia notably Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme disease. Though not forming a nucleus...
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    that causes anaplasmosis, has been detected in L. cervi, as has Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, but whether the insect can...
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    one life stage ("stadium") to the next. For example, the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent for Lyme disease, infects the tick vector as...
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