Borrelia burgdorferi sp. nov.: Etiologic Agent of Lyme Disease
Johnson, Russell C. and Schmid, George P. and Hyde, Fred W. and Steigerwalt, A. G. and Brenner, Don J.,, 34, 496-497 (1984),
doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-34-4-496,
publicationName = Microbiology Society,
issn = 1466-5026,
abstract= A review of reports on the genetic and phenotypic characteristics of strains of the spirochete which causes Lyme disease revealed that these organisms are representative of a new species of Borrelia. We propose the name Borrelia burgdorferi for this species. The type strain of B. burgdorferi is strain B31 (= ATCC 35210). In two separate studies the guanine-plus-cytosine content of the deoxyribonucleic acid of the type strain was determined to be 29.0 to 30.5 mol% (thermal denaturation method).,
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