The family Enterobacteriaceae has undergone significant morphogenetic changes in its
more than 85-year history, particularly during the past 2 decades (2000 to 2020). The …

Lyme disease (also known as Lyme borreliosis) is the most common vector-borne disease in
the United States with an estimated 476,000 cases per year. While historically, the long-term …

Lyme disease (Lyme borreliosis) is a tick-borne, zoonosis of adults and children caused by
genospecies of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex. The ailment, widespread …

The genus Borrelia, originally described by Swellengrebel in 1907, contains tick-or louse-
transmitted spirochetes belonging to the relapsing fever (RF) group of spirochetes, the Lyme …

Background Borrelia miyamotoi clusters phylogenetically among relapsing fever borreliae,
but is transmitted by hard ticks. Recent recognition as a human pathogen has intensified …

Borrelia miyamotoi is classified as a relapsing fever spirochete. Although B. miyamotoi is
genetically and ecologically distinct from Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, both …

In a recent publication in PLOS ONE, Gabriele Margos and colleagues have questioned the
division of the genus Borrelia into two genera on the basis that the differences in percentage …

Seventy years have passed since Ernest H. Runyon presented a phenotypic classification
approach for nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), primarily as a starting point in trying to …

In this paper we survey key issues in bacterial taxonomy and review the literature regarding
the recent genus separation proposed for the genus Borrelia. We discuss how information …

Ticks pose significant threats to hosts by transmitting Borrelia spp., which are grouped into
Lyme borreliae, relapsing fever borreliae (RF), and reptiles-and monotremes-associated …