Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is the most common tick-transmitted disease
in the Northern Hemisphere. The disease is caused by the bacterial spirochete Borrelia …

Spirochetes of the genus Borrelia include important human pathogens that cause Lyme
borreliosis and relapsing fever. The genomes of Borrelia species can be composed of up to …

Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne human illness in North America. In order to
understand the molecular pathogenesis, natural diversity, population structure and epizootic …

Borrelia burgdorferi is a causative agent of Lyme disease in North America and Eurasia. The
first complete genome sequence of B. burgdorferi strain 31, available for more than a …

Background Bacteria from the genus Borrelia are known to harbor numerous linear and
circular plasmids. We report here a comparative analysis of the nucleotide sequences of 236 …

Background With approximately one-third of their genomes consisting of linear and circular
plasmids, the Lyme disease agent cluster of species has the most complex genomes among …

Abstract Background The genus Borrelia comprises spirochaetal bacteria maintained in
natural transmission cycles by tick vectors and vertebrate reservoir hosts. The main groups …

Lyme disease is a multisystem disorder primarily caused by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato.
However, B. garinii, which has been identified on islands off the coast of Newfoundland and …

Borrelia spirochetes are the causative agents of Lyme disease and relapsing fever, two of
the most common tick-borne illnesses. A characteristic feature of these spirochetes is their …

The lambdoid phage N15 of Escherichia coli is very unusual among temperate phages in
that its prophage is not integrated into the chromosome but is a linear plasmid molecule with …