Borrelia kurtenbachii (DSM 26572, ATCC BAA-2495, 25015)

Name: Borrelia kurtenbachii (DSM 26572, ATCC BAA-2495, 25015)
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BacDive ID 24808

Type strain

Strain Designation 25015

Culture col. no. DSM 26572 ATCC BAA-2495 25015

NCBI tax ID(s) 1196056

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- G. Margos, Bayrisches Landesamt f. Gesundheit und Lebensmittelsicherheit (LGL), Oberschleißheim, Germany; strain 25015 <- G. Baranton, CRN Borrelia, Paris <- J. F. Anderson, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Dept. Entomology, New Haven, USA

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Borrelia kurtenbachii 25015 is a microaerophile bacterium that was isolated from blood-fed tick larvae removed from Peromyscus.

microaerophile genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 407484

ATCC BAA-2495,DSM 26572

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:24:04

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Spirochaetota

Class Spirochaetia

Order Spirochaetales

Family Borreliaceae

Genus Borrelia

Species Borrelia kurtenbachii

Full scientific name Borrelia kurtenbachii Margos et al. 2014

Synonyms (1)

Borreliella kurtenbachii

Morphology

Colony morphology

20467

Incubation period8-14 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
20467	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

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
20467	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

20467

Oxygen tolerancemicroaerophile

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Arthropoda	#Insecta
#Host	#Mammals	#Muridae (Mouse/Rat)
#Host Body Product	#Fluids	#Blood

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
20467	blood-fed tick larvae (Ixodes scapularis) removed from Peromyscus	Ixodes scapularis;Peromyscus	New York State, Millbrook	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AJ224138 (>99% sequence identity) for Borreliella from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	378
Soil Samples	126
Animal Samples	1133
Plant Samples	40
Total Samples	1677

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score	INSDC accession
66792	Borreliella kurtenbachii DSM 26572	complete	2861272341	1196056	90.5
124043	ASM5043336v1 assembly for Borreliella kurtenbachii DSM 26572	scaffold		1196056	71.4	GCA_050433365

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20467	Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, 16S rRNA gene, isolate 25015	AJ224138	1467		139

Genome-based predictions

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
Phylogeny	Borrelia kurtenbachii sp. nov., a widely distributed member of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species complex in North America.	Margos G, Piesman J, Lane RS, Ogden NH, Sing A, Straubinger RK, Fingerle V	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.054593-0	2013

References

#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 )
#20467	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 26572
#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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 kurtenbachii (DSM 26572, ATCC BAA-2495, 25015)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_050433365

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

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