Table 1. Sequence heterogeneity among the 568- to 587-bp intragenic spacer sequence of the Borrelia duttonii/B. recurrentis group*.
| Position |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 108 | 129 | 187 | 215 | 304 | 325/326 | 379 | 402 | 438 | 441 | 456 | 467 | 474 | 491 | 525 | 532 | |
| Strain | ||||||||||||||||
| B. recurrentis type I | A | T | T | C | T | GT | T | A | T | G | T | T | A | G | G | C |
| B. recurrentis type II | A | T | C | T | T | GT | T | A | T | G | T | T | A | G | G | C |
| B. duttonii type I | G | T | C | C | C | GT | T | A | C | T | T | T | A | G | A | G |
| B. duttonii type II | A | T | T | C | T | GT | T | A | T | G | T | T | A | G | G | C |
| B. duttonii type III | A | C | T | C | T | GT | T | A | T | G | T | T | A | G | G | C |
| B. duttonii type IV | G | T | C | C | T | AC | G | – | T | T | C | C | G | A | G | G |
| Consensus sequence | A | T | T/C | C | T | GT | T | A | T | G | T | T | A | G | G | G/C |
*Only exemplar sequences are included. GenBank accession nos. for B. recurrentis are DQ000277–8, while those for B. duttonii types I-IV, they are DQ000279–DQ000282.