The genome of Borrelia recurrentis, the agent of deadly louse-borne relapsing fever, is a degraded subset of tick-borne Borrelia duttonii.

by Magali Lescot, Stéphane Audic, Catherine Robert, Thi Tien Nguyen, Guillaume Blanc, Sally J Cutler, Patrick Wincker, Arnaud Couloux, Jean-Michel Claverie, Didier Raoult, Michel Drancourt
Published 2008-09-01