Lyme disease, caused by spirochetes in the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato clade within the
Borrelia genus, is transmitted by Ixodes ticks and is currently the most prevalent and rapidly …

The family Borreliaceae contains arthropod-borne spirochetes that cause two widespread
human diseases, Lyme disease and relapsing fever. Lyme disease is a subacute …

Borrelia miyamotoi is an emerging Ixodes tick-borne human pathogen in the Northern
hemisphere. The aim of the current study was to compare whole genome sequences of B …

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato is a species complex of spirochetal bacteria that occupy
different ecological niches which is reflected in their reservoir host-and vector-associations …

Carbapenem-resistant Salmonella has recently aroused increasing attention. In this study, a
total of four sequence type 36 Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium (S …

Background Microbial genomes are largely comprised of protein coding sequences, yet
some genomes contain many pseudogenes caused by frameshifts or internal stop codons …

VMP-like sequence (vls) antigenic variation systems are present in every Lyme disease
Borrelia strain with complete genome sequences. The linear plasmid-encoded vls system …

Lyme borreliosis (LB) is the most common vector‐borne disease in the Northern
Hemisphere caused by spirochetes belonging to the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (Bb sl) …

Background Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis is a zoonotic Gram-positive bacterial
pathogen known to cause different diseases in many mammals, including lymph node …

The Family Borreliaceae contains arthropod-borne spirochetes that cause two widespread
human diseases, Lyme disease (LD) and relapsing fever (RF). LD is a subacute …