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Name: "Candidatus Borrelia fainii" Qiu et al. 2019
Etymology: fai’ni.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. fainii, based on the specific epithet of the tick host Ornithodoros faini, named to honour Alexander Fain
Original publication:
Qiu Y, Nakao R, Hang'ombe BM, Sato K, Kajihara M, Kanchela S, Changula K, Eto Y, Ndebe J, Sasaki M, et al. Human Borreliosis Caused by a New World Relapsing Fever Borrelia-like Organism in the Old World. Clin Infect Dis 2019; 69:107-112.
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:
Qiu Y, Nakao R, Hang'ombe BM, Sato K, Kajihara M, Kanchela S, Changula K, Eto Y, Ndebe J, Sasaki M, et al. Human Borreliosis Caused by a New World Relapsing Fever Borrelia-like Organism in the Old World. Clin Infect Dis 2019; 69:107-112.
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Record number: 3478