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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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