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Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species "Candidatus Borrelia africana"

Name: "Candidatus Borrelia africana" Ehounoud et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: a.fri.ca’na. L. fem. adj. africana, African, pertaining to Africa

Gender: feminine

Nomenclatural type: TCI22

16S rRNA gene: KT364339 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Ehounoud CB, Yao KP, Dahmani M, Achi YL, Amanzougaghene N, Kacou N'Douba A, N'Guessan JD, Raoult D, Fenollar F, Mediannikov O. Multiple Pathogens Including Potential New Species in Tick Vectors in Cote d'Ivoire. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2016; 10:e0004367.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Candidatus list no. 3. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5186.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Borrelia Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Ehounoud CB, Yao KP, Dahmani M, Achi YL, Amanzougaghene N, Kacou N'Douba A, N'Guessan JD, Raoult D, Fenollar F, Mediannikov O. Multiple Pathogens Including Potential New Species in Tick Vectors in Cote d'Ivoire. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2016; 10:e0004367.

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Record number: 2878
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