Chromosome and Plasmids of the Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Agent Borrelia hermsii.

ABSTRACT: The zoonotic pathogen Borrelia hermsii bears its multiple paralogous genes for variable antigens on several linear plasmids. Application of combined long-read and short-read next-generation sequencing provided complete sequences for antigen-encoding plasmids as well as other linear and circular plasmids and the linear chromosome of the genome.

SUBMITTER: Barbour AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4901232 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature