genus borrelia
Noun
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Small flexible parasitic spirochetes having three to five wavy spirals (synset 101385480)
is a type of: bacteria genus - a genus of bacteriamember holonym:
- borrelia - cause of e.g. European and African relapsing fever
- borrelia burgdorferi, lime disease spirochete - cause of Lyme disease; transmitted primarily by ticks of genus Ixodes
belongs to: family treponemataceae, treponemataceae - small spirochetes some parasitic or pathogenic
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