RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Richter, Dania A1 Postic, Danièle A1 Sertour, Natacha A1 Livey, Ian A1 Matuschka, Franz-Rainer A1 Baranton, GuyYR 2006 T1 Delineation of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species by multilocus sequence analysis and confirmation of the delineation of Borrelia spielmanii sp. nov. JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 56 IS 4 SP 873 OP 881 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64050-0 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB To evaluate multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) for taxonomic purposes in the delineation of species within Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, seven relevant loci of various strains for which extensive DNA–DNA reassociation data were available were sequenced. MLSA delineation proved to be fully concordant with conventional methods. Our analysis confirmed the delineation of a novel species, Borrelia spielmanii sp. nov., previously known as ‘Borrelia spielmani’ Richter et al. 2004 , with strain PC-Eq17N5T (=DSM 16813T=CIP 108855T) as the type strain., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.64050-0