Borrelia spielmanii (DSM 16813, CIP 108855, PC-Eq17)

Name: Borrelia spielmanii (DSM 16813, CIP 108855, PC-Eq17)
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BacDive ID 14309

Type strain

Strain Designation PC-Eq17, PC-eq17N5

Culture col. no. DSM 16813 CIP 108855 PC-Eq17 PC-eq17N5

NCBI tax ID(s) 88916

Special Collections DSMZ CIP

History DSMZ <- D. Richter; PC-Eg17 CIP <- 2005, G. Baranton, Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France <- D. Richter, Berlin, Germany: strain PC-Eq17N5

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Borrelia spielmanii PC-Eq17 is a microaerophile bacterium that was isolated from Ixodes ricinus tick derived from host animal Eliomys quercinus.

microaerophile genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 215498

DSM 16813,CIP 108855

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:28:15

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Spirochaetota

Class Spirochaetia

Order Spirochaetales

Family Borreliaceae

Genus Borrelia

Species Borrelia spielmanii

Full scientific name Borrelia spielmanii Richter et al. 2006

Synonyms (1)

Borreliella spielmanii

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	99.996

Colony morphology

6612

Incubation period3-7 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
6612	BSK-MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 403)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BSK-MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 403) Composition: Bovine serum albumin 35.0245 g/l Gelatine 9.79706 g/l HEPES buffer 4.19874 g/l Proteose peptone no. 2 3.49895 g/l Glucose 2.09937 g/l Proteose yeastolate 0.69979 g/l Tryptone peptone 0.69979 g/l Na-pyruvate 0.559832 g/l Sodium citrate 0.489853 g/l N-Acetylglucosamine 0.279916 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 0.209937 g/l L-Glutamine 0.069979 g/l Double distilled water CMRL 1066 Rabbit serum
38340	MEDIUM 83 - for Borrelia		BSK-H medium (1000.000 ml)
123261	CIP Medium 83	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
6612	positive	growth	32
38340	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
6612	microaerophile
125439	facultative anaerobe	99.022

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		95.364
125439		99.997

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Arthropoda	#Tick
#Host	#Mammals	#Muridae (Mouse/Rat)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
6612	Ixodes ricinus tick derived from host animal Eliomys quercinus	Ixodes ricinus;Eliomys quercinus	Petite Camargue Alsacienne	France	FRA	Europe
123261	Animal, Ixodes ricinus tick feeding on a garden dormouse		Alsace	France	FRA	Europe	2000

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AY147008 (>99% sequence identity) for Borreliella from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	31
Soil Samples	26
Animal Samples	197
Plant Samples	0
Total Samples	254

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
6612	2	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
123261	2	Risk group (French classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM1420170v1 assembly for Borreliella spielmanii DSM 16813	scaffold	GCA_014201705	88916.9	2861251124	88916	70.13

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
6612	Borrelia spielmani 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY147008	1213		88916
124043	Borrelia spielmanii partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain DSM 16813T	HE582779	1523		88916

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM1420170v1 assembly for Borreliella spielmanii DSM 16813
NCBI: GCA_014201705

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	99.02	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	57.24	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	100.00	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	100.00	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Borreliella spielmanii DSM 16813
NCBI: GCA_014201705.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	82.58	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	81.99	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	94.34	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	95.36	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	88.70	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	50.39	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	The genus Borrelia reloaded.	Margos G, Gofton A, Wibberg D, Dangel A, Marosevic D, Loh SM, Oskam C, Fingerle V.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0208432	2018
Enzymology	Isolation of Borrelia miyamotoi and other Borreliae using a modified BSK medium.	Replogle AJ, Sexton C, Young J, Kingry LC, Schriefer ME, Dolan M, Johnson TL, Connally NP, Padgett KA, Petersen JM.	Sci Rep	10.1038/s41598-021-81252-1	2021
	Combining citizen science and molecular diagnostic methods to investigate the prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. and Borrelia miyamotoi in tick pools across Great Britain.	Shan J, Jia Y, Hickenbotham P, Teulieres L, Clokie MRJ.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2023.1126498	2023
Phylogeny	Human pathogenic Borrelia spielmanii sp. nov. resists complement-mediated killing by direct binding of immune regulators factor H and factor H-like protein 1.	Herzberger P, Siegel C, Skerka C, Fingerle V, Schulte-Spechtel U, van Dam A, Wilske B, Brade V, Zipfel PF, Wallich R, Kraiczy P	Infect Immun	10.1128/IAI.00532-07	2007
Phylogeny	Delineation of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species by multilocus sequence analysis and confirmation of the delineation of Borrelia spielmanii sp. nov.	Richter D, Postic D, Sertour N, Livey I, Matuschka FR, Baranton G	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.64050-0	2006

References

#6612	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 16813
#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#38340	; Curators of the CIP;
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#123261	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 108855
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Borrelia spielmanii (DSM 16813, CIP 108855, PC-Eq17)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_014201705

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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