Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.33722

Name

Borrelia kalaharica Fingerle et al. 2016

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Borrelia Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Margos et al. 2018

Type Strain

representative organism

M15-2747^T

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Spirochaetota corrig. Garrity and Holt 2021
class Spirochaetia (Cavalier-Smith 2002) Paster 2020
order Spirochaetales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Borreliaceae Gupta et al. 2014
genus Borrelia Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Margos et al. 2018
species Borrelia kalaharica Fingerle et al. 2016

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Borrelia kalaharica Fingerle et al. 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.33722.

Source File

10.1601/tx.33722.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 1, 2019.

References

Fingerle V, Pritsch M, Wächtler M, Margos G, Ruske S, Jung J, Löscher T, Wendtner C, Wieser A. "Candidatus Borrelia kalaharica" Detected from a Febrile Traveller Returning to Germany from Vacation in Southern Africa. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2016; 10:e0004559-e0004559. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004559 [PubMed].