Borrelia garinii
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| authority = Baranton et al. 1992
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Borrelia garinii is a species of spirochete bacterium in the genus Borrelia. It is endemic to parts of Eurasia where it is one of the causative organisms of human Lyme disease. It is transmitted by hard-bodied ticks of the Ixodes genus (Ixodes ricinus in Europe, and Ixodes persulcatus in temperate regions of Asia), infecting various wild woodland mammals.{{Cite web |title=Dictionnaire médical de l'Académie de Médecine |url=https://www.academie-medecine.fr/le-dictionnaire/index.php?q=Borrelia+garinii |access-date=2024-02-15 |website=www.academie-medecine.fr}}
Neurological complications are more frequent in human Lyme disease caused by this Borrelia species.
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Further reading
- {{cite journal|last1=Benredjem|first1=Wassila|last2=Leulmi|first2=Hamza|last3=Bitam|first3=Idir|last4=Raoult|first4=Didier|last5=Parola|first5=Philippe|title=Borrelia garinii and Rickettsia monacensis in Ixodes ricinus Ticks, Algeria|journal=Emerging Infectious Diseases|date=October 2014|volume=20|issue=10|pages=1776–1777|doi=10.3201/eid2010.140265|url=http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/10/14-0265_article|access-date=November 9, 2014|pmid=25272139|pmc=4193170}}
External links
- [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=138 NCBI Taxonomy Browser - Borrelia]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090627232326/http://cmr.jcvi.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=gbb Borrelia burgdoferi B31 Genome Page]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090630101415/http://cmr.jcvi.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?org=ntbg01 Borrelia Garinii PBi Genome Page]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090826215523/http://cmr.jcvi.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?org=ntba07 Borrelia Afzelli PKo Gemonme Page]
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Category:Bacteria described in 1992
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