There is inadequate evidence to support the division of the genus Borrelia

G Margos¹, D Marosevic^{1

2}, S Cutler³, M Derdakova⁴, M Diuk-Wasser⁵, S Emler⁶, D Fish⁷, J Gray^{8

9}, K-P Hunfeldt^{9

10}, B Jaulhac^{9

11}, O Kahl^{9

12}, S Kovalev¹³, P Kraiczy¹⁴, R S Lane¹⁵, R Lienhard¹⁶, P E Lindgren^{9

17}, N Ogden¹⁸, K Ornstein^{9

19}, T Rupprecht^{9

20}, I Schwartz²¹, A Sing¹, R K Straubinger²², F Strle^{9

23}, M Voordouw²⁴, A Rizzoli²⁵, B Stevenson²⁶, V Fingerle^{1

9}

Affiliations

¹ National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Veterinärstr. 2, 85764 Oberschleißheim, Germany.
² European Programme for Public Health Microbiology Training, European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
³ School of Health Sport and Bioscience, University of East London, Water Lane, London, UK.
⁴ Department of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia.
⁵ Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA.
⁶ SmartGene Services SARL, Innovation Park, Building C, EPFL-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁷ Yale School of Public Health, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
⁸ Emeritus Professor of Animal Parasitology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
⁹ Members of the Steering Committee of the ESCMID Study Group for Borrelia (ESGBOR).
¹⁰ Zentralinstitut für Labormedizin, Mikrobiologie and Krankenhaushygiene, Krankenhaus Nordwest, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Steinbacher Hohl 2-26, D-60488 Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany.
¹¹ Laboratoire de Bactériologie, CNR des Borrelia, Plateau Technique de Microbiologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg et Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg, 1 rue Koeberlé, Strasbourg 67000, France.
¹² tick-radar GmbH, Haderslebener Str. 9, Berlin 12163, Germany.
¹³ Molecular Genetics Lab (www.dnk-ural.ru) Biology Department, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N.Yeltsin, Lenin Avenue, Yekaterinburg 620000, Russia.
¹⁴ Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital Frankfurt, Paul-Ehrlich-Str, Frankfurt/Main 40, 60596, Germany.
¹⁵ Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California Berkeley, 130 Mulford Hall, Berkeley CA 94720, California, USA.
¹⁶ Borrelia Laboratory for the National Reference Centre of Tick Diseases (CNRT/ NRZK), ADMed Microbiology, La Chaux-de-Fonds 2303, Switzerland.
¹⁷ Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
¹⁸ Director, Public Health Risk Sciences Division, National Microbiology Laboratory, @ Saint-Hyacinthe and Guelph, Public Health Agency of Canada, Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada.
¹⁹ Clinical and Experimental Infectious Medicine Section, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden.
²⁰ Klinikum Dachau, Abt. Neurology u. Schlafmedizinisches Zentrum, Krankenhausstr. 15, 8521 Dachau, Germany.
²¹ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, New York Medical College, Basic Sciences Building, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA.
²² Chair Bacteriology and Mykology, Department of Veterinary Science, Veterinary Faculty, LMU Munich, Veterinärstraße, München 13, 80539, Gemany.
²³ Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
²⁴ Université de Neuchâtel, Institut de Biologie, Laboratoire d'Ecologie et Evolution des Parasites, Rue Emile-Argand 11, CH-2000, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
²⁵ Fondazione Edmund Mach, Research and Innovation Centre, Via Mach, 1, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy.
²⁶ Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, MS421 Chandler Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky, 40536-0298, USA.

PMID: 27930271
DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.001717

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There is inadequate evidence to support the division of the genus Borrelia

G Margos et al. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2017 Apr.

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. 2017 Apr;67(4):1081-1084.

doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.001717. Epub 2017 May 5.

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¹ National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Veterinärstr. 2, 85764 Oberschleißheim, Germany.
² European Programme for Public Health Microbiology Training, European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
³ School of Health Sport and Bioscience, University of East London, Water Lane, London, UK.
⁴ Department of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia.
⁵ Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA.
⁶ SmartGene Services SARL, Innovation Park, Building C, EPFL-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁷ Yale School of Public Health, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
⁸ Emeritus Professor of Animal Parasitology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
⁹ Members of the Steering Committee of the ESCMID Study Group for Borrelia (ESGBOR).
¹⁰ Zentralinstitut für Labormedizin, Mikrobiologie and Krankenhaushygiene, Krankenhaus Nordwest, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Steinbacher Hohl 2-26, D-60488 Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany.
¹¹ Laboratoire de Bactériologie, CNR des Borrelia, Plateau Technique de Microbiologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg et Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg, 1 rue Koeberlé, Strasbourg 67000, France.
¹² tick-radar GmbH, Haderslebener Str. 9, Berlin 12163, Germany.
¹³ Molecular Genetics Lab (www.dnk-ural.ru) Biology Department, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N.Yeltsin, Lenin Avenue, Yekaterinburg 620000, Russia.
¹⁴ Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital Frankfurt, Paul-Ehrlich-Str, Frankfurt/Main 40, 60596, Germany.
¹⁵ Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California Berkeley, 130 Mulford Hall, Berkeley CA 94720, California, USA.
¹⁶ Borrelia Laboratory for the National Reference Centre of Tick Diseases (CNRT/ NRZK), ADMed Microbiology, La Chaux-de-Fonds 2303, Switzerland.
¹⁷ Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
¹⁸ Director, Public Health Risk Sciences Division, National Microbiology Laboratory, @ Saint-Hyacinthe and Guelph, Public Health Agency of Canada, Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada.
¹⁹ Clinical and Experimental Infectious Medicine Section, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden.
²⁰ Klinikum Dachau, Abt. Neurology u. Schlafmedizinisches Zentrum, Krankenhausstr. 15, 8521 Dachau, Germany.
²¹ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, New York Medical College, Basic Sciences Building, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA.
²² Chair Bacteriology and Mykology, Department of Veterinary Science, Veterinary Faculty, LMU Munich, Veterinärstraße, München 13, 80539, Gemany.
²³ Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
²⁴ Université de Neuchâtel, Institut de Biologie, Laboratoire d'Ecologie et Evolution des Parasites, Rue Emile-Argand 11, CH-2000, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
²⁵ Fondazione Edmund Mach, Research and Innovation Centre, Via Mach, 1, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy.
²⁶ Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, MS421 Chandler Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky, 40536-0298, USA.

PMID: 27930271
DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.001717

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Corrigendum: There is inadequate evidence to support the division of the genus Borrelia.
Margos G, Marosevic D, Cutler S, Derdakova M, Diuk-Wasser M, Emler S, Fish D, Gray J, Hunfeld KP, Jaulhac B, Kahl O, Kovalev S, Kraiczy P, Lane RS, Lienhard R, Lindgren PE, Ogden NH, Ornstein K, Rupprecht T, Schwartz I, Sing A, Straubinger RK, Strle F, Voordouw M, Rizzoli A, Stevenson B, Fingerle V. Margos G, et al. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2017 Jun;67(6):2073. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.002100. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2017. PMID: 28665266 No abstract available.

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Division of the genus Borrelia into two genera (corresponding to Lyme disease and relapsing fever groups) reflects their genetic and phenotypic distinctiveness and will lead to a better understanding of these two groups of microbes (Margos et al. (2016) There is inadequate evidence to support the division of the genus Borrelia. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.001717).
Barbour AG, Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Barbour AG, et al. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2017 Jun;67(6):2058-2067. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.001815. Epub 2017 Jun 30. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2017. PMID: 28141502 No abstract available.

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A phylogenomic and molecular marker based proposal for the division of the genus Borrelia into two genera: the emended genus Borrelia containing only the members of the relapsing fever Borrelia, and the genus Borreliella gen. nov. containing the members of the Lyme disease Borrelia (Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex).
Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Adeolu M, et al. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. 2014 Jun;105(6):1049-72. doi: 10.1007/s10482-014-0164-x. Epub 2014 Apr 18. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. 2014. PMID: 24744012

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