Borrelia duttoni
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Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Spirochaetota
Class: Spirochaetia
Order: Spirochaetales
Family: Borreliaceae
Genus: Borrelia
Species:
B. duttoni
Binomial name
Borrelia duttoni
(Novy and Knapp 1906) Bergey et al. 1925 (Approved Lists 1980)

Borrelia duttoni, formerly known as Spirochaeta duttoni,[1] is a species of Borrelia.[2]

It can be associated with relapsing fever. It is named after Joseph Everett Dutton, who died of the disease in 1905 while he and John Lancelot Todd were investigating "tick fever".[3]

References

  1. ^ Garnham, P. C. (1974). "Edward Hindle, 1886-1973". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 20: 217–234. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1974.0009. PMID 11615757. S2CID 40996516.
  2. ^ Vial L, Durand P, Arnathau C, et al. (September 2006). "Molecular divergences of the Ornithodoros sonrai soft tick species, a vector of human relapsing fever in West Africa". Microbes Infect. 8 (11): 2605–11. doi:10.1016/j.micinf.2006.07.012. PMID 16962358.
  3. ^ Cook, Gordon (2007-09-17). Tropical Medicine: An Illustrated History of The Pioneers. Academic Press. pp. 167–169. ISBN 978-0-08-055939-1. Retrieved 2013-05-08.


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