Novel genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato from rodents and ticks in southwestern China.
By using multilocus sequence analysis, five Borrelia valaisiana-related strains isolated from rodents and ticks in southwestern China were eventually classified as a new genospecies of B. burgdorferi sensu lato rather than B. valaisiana. The finding explained the differences in transmission cycle and phenotype between B. valaisiana strains from Europe and B. valaisiana-related strains from eastern Asia.
Chu
Chen-Yi
CY
Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing 100071, People's Republic of China.
Liu
Wei
W
Jiang
Bao-Gui
BG
Wang
Ding-Ming
DM
Jiang
Wei-Jia
WJ
Zhao
Qiu-Min
QM
Zhang
Pan-He
PH
Wang
Zhao-Xiao
ZX
Tang
Guang-Peng
GP
Yang
Hong
H
Cao
Wu-Chun
WC
D000818:Animals; D015748:Borrelia burgdorferi Group / Q000235:genetics*; D002681:China; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length / Q000235:genetics; D012377:Rodentia / Q000382:microbiology; D013987:Ticks / Q000382:microbiology