Species Borrelia nietonii

Name: Borrelia nietonii Schwan et al. 2024

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ni.et.o’ni.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. nietonii, in honor of our late colleague and friend Dr. Nathan Christopher Nieto for his outstanding contributions to the ecology of tickborne relapsing fever in the western United States

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC TSD-355; DSM 115472; MTW-2T

Effective publication: Schwan TG, Raffel SJ, Ricklefs SM, Bruno DP, Martens C. Borrelia nietonii sp. nov.: Relapsing Fever Spirochetes Transmitted By the Tick Ornithodoros hermsi Designated Previously as Borrelia hermsii Genomic Group II. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 2024; 24:278-284.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 220. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6501.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Parent taxon: Borrelia Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Schwan TG, Raffel SJ, Ricklefs SM, Bruno DP, Martens C. Borrelia nietonii sp. nov.: Relapsing Fever Spirochetes Transmitted By the Tick Ornithodoros hermsi Designated Previously as Borrelia hermsii Genomic Group II. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 2024; 24:278-284.

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Record number: 44325
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