Barbour Alan G, Campeau Miller Shelley
Departments of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics and Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA.
Genome Announc. 2014 Feb 13;2(1):e00018-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00018-14.
Borrelia parkeri is a relapsing fever agent that rarely causes human infection, unlike other North American species. B. parkeri strain HR1 was isolated from Ornithodoros parkeri ticks. The sequences of its linear chromosome and large plasmid were determined by next-generation sequencing. These confirmed its closer relatedness to Borrelia turicatae than to Borrelia hermsii.
帕克氏疏螺旋体是一种回归热病原体，与其他北美物种不同，它很少引起人类感染。帕克氏疏螺旋体HR1菌株是从帕克钝缘蜱中分离出来的。通过下一代测序确定了其线性染色体和大质粒的序列。这些序列证实，它与图氏疏螺旋体的亲缘关系比与赫氏疏螺旋体更近。
