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genus Borrelia

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Noun1.genus Borrelia - small flexible parasitic spirochetes having three to five wavy spirals
bacteria genus - a genus of bacteria
family Treponemataceae, Treponemataceae - small spirochetes some parasitic or pathogenic
borrelia - cause of e.g. European and African relapsing fever
Borrelia burgdorferi, Lime disease spirochete - cause of Lyme disease; transmitted primarily by ticks of genus Ixodes
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At the 12th International Conference on Lyme Disease and Other Spirochetal and Tick-Borne Disorders (April 1999), Burgdorfer explained that microbiologists have studied genus Borrelia spirochetes for over 100 years.
Borrelia survive by shape-shifting by Klotte, Jule / Townsend Letter
Treatment of Lyme Disease Lyme disease, or borreliosis, is an emerging infectious disease caused by at least three species of bacteria belonging to the genus Borrelia.
Lyme Disease -Causes, Symptoms, Treatment by James Sameul / Health, general community
To the Editor: Tick-borne relapsing fever in western North America is a zoonosis caused by spirochetes in the genus Borrelia that are transmitted by argasid ticks of the genus Ornithodoros (1).
Novel relapsing fever spirochete in bat tick by Gill, James S.; Ullmann, Amy J.; Loftis, Amanda D.; Schwan, Tom G.; Raffel, Sandra J.; Schrumpf, Mer / Emerging Infectious Diseases
 
 
 
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