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Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease spirochete)

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Species:Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease spirochete)
Species code:BORBU
Type:Eubacteria
Taxonomy:Bacteria; Spirochaetales; Spirochaetaceae; Borrelia (TaxID: 139) [NEWT / NCBI]
Strain(s): ATCC 35210 / B31
Genome:linear, 0.91 Mb; 17 plasmids of combined size of 533 Kb
Reference(s): MEDLINE=98065943 [NCBI, ExPASy, Israel, Japan]; PubMed=9403685;
Fraser C.M., Casjens S., Huang W.M., Sutton G.G., Clayton R.A., Lathigra R., White O., Ketchum K.A., Dodson R., Hickey E.K., Gwinn M., Dougherty B., Tomb J.-F., Fleischmann R.D., Richardson D., Peterson J., Kerlavage A.R., Quackenbush J., Salzberg S., Hanson M., Van Vugt R., Palmer N., Adams M.D., Gocayne J.D., Weidman J., Utterback T., Watthey L., McDonald L., Artiach P., Bowman C., Garland S., Fujii C., Cotton M.D., Horst K., Roberts K., Hatch B., Smith H.O., Venter J.C.;
"Genomic sequence of a Lyme disease spirochaete, Borrelia burgdorferi.";
Nature 390:580-586(1997).
Genome official sequence WWW site(s): http://www.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR2/GenomePage3.spl?database=gbb
Other WWW site(s): GIB (DDBJ)
EBI GeneQuiz
Description:Spirochete spiral-shaped bacterium. Highly specialized, motile, with two membranes, it lives primarily as an extracellular pathogen. It is the causative agent of Lyme borreliosis. It was first isolated in the early 1980s from the midgut of Ixodes ticks.

Properties:Number of membranes : 2
Presence of a flagella : Yes
Number of inteins : 0

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