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Borrelia burgdorferi sp. nov.: Etiologic Agent of Lyme Disease

¹Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
²Division of Bacterial Diseases, Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia 30333

^* Corresponding author.

ABSTRACT

A review of reports on the genetic and phenotypic characteristics of strains of the spirochete which causes Lyme disease revealed that these organisms are representative of a new species of Borrelia. We propose the name Borrelia burgdorferi for this species. The type strain of B. burgdorferi is strain B31 (= ATCC 35210). In two separate studies the guanine-plus-cytosine content of the deoxyribonucleic acid of the type strain was determined to be 29.0 to 30.5 mol% (thermal denaturation method).

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