Borrelia Genome Sequence
By Linda on Jan 31, 2011 in F.I.G.H.T., Infections
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Department of Pathology, Division of Microbiology and Immunology, University
of Utah Medical School, Salt Lake City, UT 84112; Institute for Genome
Sciences, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Department of
Microbiology and Immunology, Baltimore, MD 21201; Department of Biological
Sciences, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, NY
10065; Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11793;
Department of Medicine, Health Science Center, Stony Brook University, Stony
Brook, NY 11794; Department of Medicine, University of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103.Human Lyme disease is caused by a number of related Borrelia burgdorferi
sensu lato species. We report here the complete genome sequence of Borrelia
sp.
isolate SV1 from Finland. It is a so far the closest known relative of B.
burgdorferi sensu stricto, but it is sufficiently genetically distinct from
that species that it and its close relatives warrant its candidacy as a new
species status. We suggest that it should be named Borrelia finlandensis
