@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.000491, author = "Margos, Gabriele and Chu, Chen-Yi and Takano, Ai and Jiang, Bao-Gui and Liu, Wei and Kurtenbach, Klaus and Masuzawa, Toshiyuki and Fingerle, Volker and Cao, Wu-Chun and Kawabata, Hiroki", title = "Borrelia yangtzensis sp. nov., a rodent-associated species in Asia, is related to Borrelia valaisiana", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2015", volume = "65", number = "Pt_11", pages = "3836-3840", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000491", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.000491", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "Twenty-nine isolates of Lyme borreliosis (LB) group spirochaetes collected from ticks and rodents in China and Japan were included in a multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA). Using a different typing system, three of these strains had previously been identified as being divergent from other LB spirochaete species and the name ‘Borrelia yangtze’ sp. nov. was proposed. The data presented here confirm that the genetic distance, calculated using sequences of MLSA housekeeping genes, to other known LB group spirochaete species was < 95 % and to Borrelia valaisiana was 96.67 % (which represents the most closely related species within the group of LB spirochaetes). This and the fact that these strains are ecologically distinct from B. valaisiana (rodent-transmitted vs bird-transmitted) provide strong support for the validation of the proposed species status. We suggest the name Borrelia yangtzensis sp. nov. The type strain is Okinawa-CW62T ( = DSM 24625T = JCM 17189T).", }