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

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

In an effort to understand how a tick-borne pathogen adapts to the body louse, we sequenced and compared the genomes of the recurrent fever agents Borrelia recurrentis and B. duttonii. The 1,242,163-1,574,910-bp fragmented genomes of B. recurrentis and B. duttonii contain a unique 23-kb linear plasm...

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Main Authors: 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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-09-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2525819?pdf=render

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