| Species/Subspecies: | Borrelia coriaceae | ||||||||
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| Category: | Motile | ||||||||
| Etymology: | Genus name: named after the French bacteriologist Amédée Borrel (1867-1936). Species epithet: of lether (refers to the vector). | ||||||||
| Significance: | Borrelia coriaceae is not of clinical importace in Scandinavia. [Of minor importance] |
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| Taxonomy: | Class Spirochaetia Order Spirochaetales Family Spirochaetaceae Genus Borrelia |
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| Type Strain: | Co53 = ATCC 43381. | ||||||||
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| Micromorphology: | Borrelia spp. have a planar flat-wave morphology. | ||||||||
| Gram +/Gram -: | G-, but difficult to stain. | ||||||||
| Metabolism: | Microaerophilic. | ||||||||
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| Vector: | Soft tick (Ornithodoros dugesi). | ||||||||
| Disease: | Is assumed to cause epizootic bovine abortion in USA. |
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| Hosts: | Cattle and deer. | ||||||||
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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. 234:1. | ||||||||
| Updated: | 2023-03-08 |