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Volume 9, Number 6—June 2003
Research

Relapsing Fever–Like Spirochetes Infecting European Vector Tick of Lyme Disease Agent

Dania Richter*Comments to Author , Daniela B. Schlee*, and Franz-Rainer Matuschka*
Author affiliations: *Institut für Pathologie, Charité, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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Table 3

Similarity matrix for the 16S rRNA sequences of various relapsing fever and relapsing fever–like spirochetes (RFS)

Species Variant Accession no. % similarity with
American RFS European RFS Borrelia miyamotoi B. lonestari B. hispanica “Spain” strain
American RFS
MP2000
AY024345
100





European RFS
LB-W100
AF529085
99.64
100




B. miyamotoi
HT31
D45192
99.34
99.46
100



B. lonestari
Texas-20
U23211
98.19
98.28
98.19
100


B. hispanica
UESV/246
U42294
98.16
98.37
97.79
98.13
100

“Spain” strain N.n.a U28502 97.10 97.56 96.69 97.06 98.87 100

aN.n., not named.

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