Volume 30, Number 2—February 2024
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Borrelia turicatae from Ticks in Peridomestic Setting, Camayeca, Mexico
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Figure 2. Isolation and genetic characterization of Borrelia turicatae from ticks collected in the village of Camayeca, Mexico. A) Spirochetes were isolated from murine blood in culture medium. Scale bar indicates 20 µm. B) Genome sequencing and assembly generated the plasmid repertoire of the bacteria. Plasmids were designated as lp or cp and by their respective size to the nearest kilobase. PF partitioning genes are shown in each plasmid as orange, green, red, and blue triangles. C) Maximum-likelihood species tree performed in a phylogenomic analysis of the spirochete sample we extracted, designated CAM-1 (boldface), grouped the spirochete with B. turicatae. The tree was generated with an edge-linked proportional partition model with 1,000 ultra-fast bootstraps. Scale bar indicates 0.02 substitutions per site. cp, circular plasmid; lp, linear plasmid; PF, plasmid family.