Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb)

The Taxonomy and Genetics of the Lyme Disease Bacteria


Lyme disease is a serious bacterial infection caused by a tick bite and affects humans and animals.

This page contains MEDLINE search links to citations and abstracts for medical and scientific articles at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM) MEDLINE database.

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Taxonomy of Borrelia burgdorferi - the Lyme disease bacteria
Strains of the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria - taxonomy ID: 139
MEDLINE searches and other links for Borrelia burgdorferi - the Lyme disease bacteria
MEDLINE searches and links for other Borrelia bacteria
MEDLINE searches and links for even more Borrelia bacteria
Genetics of Borrelia burgdorferi - the Lyme disease bacteria
Pictures of Borrelia burgdorferi - the Lyme disease bacteria
Other taxonomy and genetics resources
Miscellaneous articles on B. burgdorferi species or strains and Lyme disease

For more information on Lyme disease

Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) - The Taxonomy and Genetics of the Lyme Disease Bacteria

Taxonomy of Borrelia burgdorferi - the Lyme disease bacteria

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) HomePage
NCBI Taxonomy of Borrelia
NCBI Taxonomy of Borrelia burgdorferi group - species of Bb group [54 species as of 26 Aug 01]
Taxonomy browser (Borrelia burgdorferi - the Lyme disease spirochete) - taxonomy ID: 139
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Taxonomy browser (root)
Google Search: taxonomy borrelia burgdorferi - 611 on 27 Apr 01


Strains of the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria - taxonomy ID: 139

NIH/NLM National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) HomePage

NCBI Entrez-Nucleotide Search Results for burgdorferi AND (strain OR isolate) -
1,216 items found on 22 Jun 01

NCBI Entrez-Nucleotide Search Results for txid139[Organism] AND (strain OR isolate) -
958 items found on 22 Jun 01
List of 321 Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) strains from NIH/NLM/NCBI database, 22 Jun 01
Pasteur Institute: Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains, listed by species and alphabetically
Pasteur Institute: An alphanumeric list of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto strains
Pasteur Institute: An alphanumeric list of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains
EUCALB Biology: The Spirochaete: Borrelia Strains
Infection With Multiple Strains of Bb Sensu Stricto in Patients With Lyme Dis., Arch Dermatol. 1999

Culture-Confirmed Reinfection of a Person with Different Strains of Bb Sensu Stricto, Golde WT et al., J Clin Microbiol 1998 Apr;36(4):1015-9
MEDLINE - burgdorferi [in Title] AND strains [in Title] - 53 citations found on 22 Jun 01


MEDLINE searches and other links for Borrelia burgdorferi - the Lyme disease bacteria

MEDLINE - [Borrelia] "burgdorferi sensu lato" (i.e., all Bb) [in Title] - 137 on 28 Jul 00
MEDLINE - [Borrelia] "burgdorferi sensu lato" (i.e., all Bb) - 296 on 28 Jul 00
MEDLINE - burgdorferi OR all Bb - 3883 on 28 Jul 00
Google Search: burgdorferi sensu lato - 757 on 9 Mar 01
Google Search: burgdorferi - 20,600 on 9 Mar 01
Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains, Pasteur Institute
MEDLINE - Borrelia afzelii [in Title] - 45 on 28 Jul 00
MEDLINE - Borrelia afzelii - 252 on 28 Jul 00
Google Search: Borrelia afzelii - 762 on 9 Mar 01
Borrelia afzelii strains, Pasteur Institute
MEDLINE - Borrelia andersonii - 7 on 27 Jul 00
Google Search: borrelia andersonii - 77 on 9 Mar 01
Borrelia andersonii strains, Pasteur Institute
MEDLINE - Borrelia bissettii - 9 on 9 Mar 01
Google Search: borrelia bissettii - 20 on 9 Mar 01
Borrelia bissettii strains, Pasteur Institute
MEDLINE - Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto (causes LD in US) [in Title] - 34 on 28 Jul 00
MEDLINE - Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto - 243 on 28 Jul 00
MEDLINE - burgdorferi - 3828 on 28 Jul 00
Google Search: burgdorferi sensu stricto - 468 on 9 Mar 01
Google Search: burgdorferi - 20,600 on 9 Mar 01
Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto strains, Pasteur Institute
MEDLINE - Borrelia garinii [in Title] - 48 on 28 Jul 00
MEDLINE - Borrelia garinii - 286 on 28 Jul 00
Google Search: borrelia garinii - 842 on 9 Mar 01
Borrelia garinii strains, Pasteur Institute
MEDLINE - Borrelia japonica - 33 on 27 Apr 01
Google Search: borrelia japonica - 423 on 9 Mar 01
Borrelia japonica strains, Pasteur Institute
MEDLINE - Borrelia lusitaniae - 11 on 27 Jul 00
Google Search: borrelia lusitaniae - 61 on 9 Mar 01
Borrelia lusitaniae strains, Pasteur Institute
MEDLINE - Borrelia tanukii - 3 on 27 Jul 00
Google Search: borrelia tanukii - 96 on 9 Mar 01
MEDLINE - Borrelia turdi or Borrelia turdae - 2 on 27 Jul 00
Google Search: borrelia turdi - 15 on 9 Mar 01
Google Search: borrelia turdae - 46 on 9 Mar 01
MEDLINE - Borrelia valaisiana - 22 on 27 Jul 00
Google Search: borrelia valaisiana - 91 on 9 Mar 01
Borrelia valaisiana strains, Pasteur Institute


MEDLINE searches and links for other Borrelia bacteria

MEDLINE - Borrelia anserina (Avian borreliosis, septicemia in birds) - 72 on 27 Jul 00
MEDLINE - Borrelia anserina AND Lyme disease - 24 on 27 Jul 00
Google Search: borrelia anserina - 187 on 27 Apr 01
MEDLINE - Borrelia barbouri () - 0 on 27 Jul 00
MEDLINE - Borrelia barbouri AND Lyme disease - 0 on 27 Jul 00
Google Search: borrelia barbouri - 20 on 9 Mar 01
MEDLINE - Borrelia coriaceae (bovine abortion) - 26 on 27 Jul 00
MEDLINE - Borrelia coriaceae AND Lyme disease - 21 on 27 Jul 00
Google Search: borrelia coriaceae - 85 on 9 Mar 01
Borrelia theileri: A Review
MEDLINE - Borrelia crocidurae (African human relapsing fever) - on 27 Jul 00
MEDLINE - Borrelia crocidurae AND Lyme disease - on 27 Jul 00
Google Search: borrelia crocidurae - 87 on 9 Mar 01
AltaVista: Results - crocidurae AND "African relapsing fever" 3 on 27 Jul 00
MEDLINE - Borrelia duttonii (a tick-borne human relapsing fever) - 15 on 27 Jul 00
MEDLINE - Borrelia duttonii AND Lyme disease - 5 on 27 Jul 00
Google Search: borrelia duttonii - 73 on 9 Mar 01
Borrelia hermsii - Tick-Borne Human Relapsing Fever
MEDLINE - Borrelia hispanica (a tick-borne human relapsing fever) - 4 on 27 Jul 00
MEDLINE - Borrelia hispanica AND Lyme disease - 1 on 27 Jul 00
Google Search: borrelia hispanica - 58 on 9 Mar 01
MEDLINE - Borrelia lonestari (tick-borne "Lyme-like disease", CDC: southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI)) - 3 on 27 Jul 00
MEDLINE - Borrelia lonestari AND Lyme disease - 2 on 27 Jul 00
CDC-Borrelia lonestari DNA in Adult Amblyomma americanum Ticks, Alabama"
Lone Star Tick-Infecting Borreliae Are Most Closely Related to the Agent of Bovine Borreliosis, JCM -- Abstracts: Rich et al. 39 (2): 494
First Texas Senate Hearing on Tick-borne Diseases
EUCALB Biology: The Spirochaete: Borrelia Strains
Google Search: lonestari AND lyme-like - 17 on 9 Mar 01
Google Search: borrelia lonestari - 81 on 9 Mar 01
MEDLINE - Borrelia miyamotoi (tick-borne "Lyme-like disease") - 6 on 27 Jul 00
MEDLINE - Borrelia miyamotoi AND Lyme disease - 4 on 27 Jul 00
Google Search: miyamotoi AND lyme-like - 3 on 9 Mar 01
Google Search: borrelia miyamotoi - 18 on 45 on 9 Mar 00
EUCALB Biology: The Spirochaete: Borrelia Strains
Borrelia parkeri - Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever
MEDLINE - Borrelia persica (a tick-borne human relapsing fever) - 6 on 27 Jul 00
MEDLINE - Borrelia persica AND Lyme disease - 0 on 27 Jul 00
Google Search: borrelia persica - 54 on 9 Mar 01
MEDLINE - Borrelia recurrentis (louse-borne relapsing fever) - 39 on 27 Jul 00
MEDLINE - Borrelia recurrentis (louse-borne relapsing fever) - 39 on 27 Jul 00
MEDLINE - Borrelia recurrentis AND Lyme disease - 9 on 27 Jul 00
Google Search: borrelia recurrentis - 553 on 9 Mar 01
MEDLINE - Borrelia sinica () - 0 on 27 Jul 00
MEDLINE - Borrelia sinica AND Lyme disease - 0 on 27 Jul 00
Google Search: borrelia sinica - 38 on 9 Mar 01
MEDLINE - Borrelia theileri (Spirochetosis of animals) - 16 on 27 Jul 00
MEDLINE - Borrelia theileri AND Lyme disease - 4 on 27 Jul 00
Google Search: borrelia theileri - 50 on 9 Mar 01
Borrelia theileri: A Review
Borrelia turicatae - Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever
MEDLINE - Borrelia sp. nov. (species nova = new species) - 17 on 28 Jul 00
MEDLINE - Borrelia sp. (species - singular) - 20 on 27 Jul 00
MEDLINE - Borrelia spp. (species - plural) - 82 on 27 Jul 00
What Latin abbreviations mean (sp., spp., nov.)
Human Borreliosis (Relapsing Fever), J Spiro Tick Diseases 6(1):6-33; 6(2): 45-71, 1999
A new Borrelia species isolated from patients with relapsing fever in Spain


MEDLINE searches and links for even more Borrelia bacteria

MEDLINE - Borrelia baltazardii (experimental pathogenicity for some animals) - 1 on 27 Apr 01
Google Search: "Borrelia baltazardii" - 6 on 27 Apr 01
MEDLINE - Borrelia brasiliensis () - 0 on 27 Apr 01
Google Search: "Borrelia brasiliensis" - 12 on 27 Apr 01
MEDLINE - Borrelia caucasica () - 0 on 27 Apr 01
Google Search: "Borrelia caucasica" - 12 on 27 Apr 01
MEDLINE - Borrelia dugesii () - 0 on 27 Apr 01
Google Search: "Borrelia dugesii" - 6 on 27 Apr 01
MEDLINE - Borrelia graingeri () - 0 on 27 Apr 01
Google Search: "Borrelia graingeri" - 7 on 27 Apr 01
MEDLINE - Borrelia harveyi () - 0 on 27 Apr 01
Google Search: "Borrelia harveyi" - 6 on 27 Apr 01
MEDLINE - Borrelia latyschewii () - 0 on 27 Apr 01
Google Search: "Borrelia latyschewii" - 9 on 27 Apr 01
MEDLINE - Borrelia mazzottii () - 0 on 27 Apr 01
Google Search: "Borrelia mazzottii" - 11 on 27 Apr 01
MEDLINE - Borrelia tillae () - 0 on 27 Apr 01
Google Search: "Borrelia tillae" - 9 on 27 Apr 01
MEDLINE - Borrelia venezuelensis () - 0 on 27 Apr 01
Google Search: "Borrelia venezuelensis" - 12 on 27 Apr 01
MEDLINE - Borrelia neotropicalis () - 0 on 27 Apr 01
Google Search: "Borrelia neotropicalis" - 1 on 27 Apr 01
Borrelia Swellengrebel 1907, genus
BORRELIA


Genetics of Borrelia burgdorferi - the Lyme disease bacteria

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)
Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM)
The Institut Pasteur
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)
Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG)
Other genetics resources for Borrelia burgdorferi
Articles on the genetics of Borrelia burgdorferi and Lyme disease

National Institues of Health (NIH)

NIH: Entrez Genomes - complete genomes
NIH: Borrelia burgdorferi complete genome
NIH: Borrelia burgdorferi complete genome [Summary sequence view]
NIH: Borrelia burgdorferi complete genome - credits
NCBI HomePage
Entrez-Nucleotide [example: enter "X82409" for OspG]

The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)

The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)
TIGR Microbial Database [see Borrelia burgdorferi]
The Borrelia Burgdorferi Genome Database (TIGR)
Borrelia burgdorferi Sequence Search (TIGR)
Borrelia burgdorferi background (TIGR)

Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM)

Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) Search Launcher Links
BCM Search Launcher: Species-Specific Protein Sequence Searches
Borrelia burgdorferi Genome Sequence Search (BCM)
Borrelia burgdorferi Genome Query vs Entire Borrelia burgdorferi Genome

The Institut Pasteur

Pasteur Institute
Welcome to the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato Molecular Genetics Server
Spirochaete Researchers on the Web
Borrelia burgdorferi DNA sequences
Bb plasmid sequences
Burgdorferi Membrane Components
Entrez-Nucleotide Search results for X82409 - Bb OspG
NCBI Sequence Viewer for X82409 - Bb OspG and BapA
Entrez-Nucleotide [example: enter X82409]
X82409

Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)

BNL Home Page
Willy's Collection of Links
Borrelia burgdorferi, linear chromosome
Borrelia Infomation - links

Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG)

Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG)
Search and Compute with KEGG
Pyrimidine metabolism - Borrelia burgdorferi (KEGG)

Other genetics resources for Borrelia burgdorferi

CUBIC: Transmembrane helices for borbu (Borrelia burgdorferi)
SSU Prokaryotic rRNA Taxonomic List -- 2.13-2.13.4.3
SSU Prokaryotic rRNA Alphabetic List -- "B"
SCOP: Protein: Outer surface protein A from Lyme disease spirochete (Borrelia burgdorferi)

Articles on the genetics of Borrelia burgdorferi and Lyme disease

Scientists Discover How to Decifer DNA of Borrelia Burgdorferi, Sharon Smith
Shuffling the Evolution of Lyme Disease, BioMedNet news, 1 Jun 99


Pictures of Borrelia burgdorferi - the Lyme disease bacteria

LDF -- Picture Gallery - Borrelia burgdorferi
Bb - Pasteur Institute


Other taxonomy and genetics resources

Principles of Classification of Eubacteria, Prescott, Harley and Klein (1998) Microbiology
An Introduction to Taxonomy: The Bacteria
Google Search: genus species strain bacteria classification
Genomic and Genetic Resources on the World Wide Web
Genes on the Web
WWW Virtual Library: Genetics


Miscellaneous articles on B. burgdorferi species and strains and Lyme disease

Ticks Now Found to Carry a New Infectious Agent Related to LD Bacteria, Yale News, 26 Apr 01
Ticks That Carry Lyme Disease May Harbor New Infectious Bug, Bloomberg.com, 26 Apr 01
New Borrelia Species Identified in Deer Ticks, Reuters Health, 26 Apr 01


For more information on Lyme disease see: Lots Of Links On Lyme Disease

Comments or questions concerning this page should be directed to Art Doherty.

Last updated on 22 June 2001 by
Art Doherty
Lompoc, California
doherty@utech.net