Species "Borrelia lonestari"

Name: "Borrelia lonestari" Barbour et al. 1996

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: lone.star’i. N.L. gen. neut. n. lonestari, derived from the host organism, the Lone Star tick, Amblyomma americanum

Gender: feminine

Type strain: Texas 20

16S rRNA gene: U23211 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Barbour AG, Maupin GO, Teltow GJ, Carter CJ, Piesman J. Identification of an uncultivable Borrelia species in the hard tick Amblyomma americanum: possible agent of a Lyme disease-like illness. J Infect Dis 1996; 173:403-409.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Borrelia Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Barbour AG, Maupin GO, Teltow GJ, Carter CJ, Piesman J. Identification of an uncultivable Borrelia species in the hard tick Amblyomma americanum: possible agent of a Lyme disease-like illness. J Infect Dis 1996; 173:403-409.

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Record number: 800932
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