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. 2010 May 12;48(7):2484–2489. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00541-10

TABLE 3.

Similarities of concatenated sequences of relapsing fever spirochetes^a

Strain	% similarity^a
	B. recurrentis A1	B. duttonii		B. crocidurae		B. hispanica		B. turicatae 91E135	B. hermsii HS1
	B. recurrentis A1	Ly	1120K3	CR2A^b	Achema	CR1	Sp1	B. turicatae 91E135	B. hermsii HS1
A1	100
Ly	99.49	100
1120K3	99.39	99.46	100
CR2A	99.36	99.43	99.54	100
Achema	98.76	98.92	99.01	98.97	100
CR1	96.5	96.64	96.76	96.73	96.87	100
Sp1	96.55	96.63	96.75	96.72	96.88	99.39	100
91E135	84.69	84.78	84.87	84.88	84.92	84.90	84.77	100
HS1	84.74	84.90	84.95	84.98	84.95	84.97	84.94	91.28	100

^a

Similarities were calculated from the distance matrix (P-distance values) in a pairwise deletion procedure.

^b

Proposed in this study to be reclassified as B. duttonii CR2A.