Name: "Candidatus Borrelia andersonii" Marconi et al. 1995
Etymology: an.der.son’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. andersonii, of Anderson, named after John F. Anderson, who first described the organism
Type strain: 21038; ATCC 700555
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16S rRNA gene: L46701 Analyse FASTA
Original publication: Marconi RT, Liveris D, Schwartz I. Identification of novel insertion elements, restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns, and discontinuous 23S rRNA in Lyme disease spirochetes: phylogenetic analyses of rRNA genes and their intergenic spacers in Borrelia japonica sp. nov. and genomic group 21038 (Borrelia andersonii sp. nov.) isolates. J Clin Microbiol 1995; 33:2427-2434.
IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.
Nomenclatural status: not validly published
Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)
Parent taxon: Borrelia Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980)
Assigned by: Marconi RT, Liveris D, Schwartz I. Identification of novel insertion elements, restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns, and discontinuous 23S rRNA in Lyme disease spirochetes: phylogenetic analyses of rRNA genes and their intergenic spacers in Borrelia japonica sp. nov. and genomic group 21038 (Borrelia andersonii sp. nov.) isolates. J Clin Microbiol 1995; 33:2427-2434.
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Record number: 800930