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

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.