Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.35416

Name

Borrelia lonestari Barbour et al. 1996

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

LS-1^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 lonestari Barbour et al. 1996

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 lonestari Barbour et al. 1996. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.35416.

Source File

10.1601/tx.35416.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 26, 2019.

References

Barbour AG, Maupin GO, Teltow GJ, Carter CJ, Piesman J. Identification of an uncultivable Borrelia species in the hard tick Amblyomma americanum: possible agent of a Lyme disease-like illness. J Infect Dis 1996; 173:403-409. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/173.2.403 [PubMed].