Table 1.
Average nucleotide identity among Borrelia species.
| B. bissetii (%) | B. garinii (%) | B. afzelii (%) | B. burgdorferi (%) | B. turicatae (%) | B. hermsii (%) | B. crocidurae (%) | B. recurrentis (%) | B. duttonii (%) | B. persica (%) | B. hispanica (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B. hispanica (%) | 77.55 | 77.71 | 77.87 | 77.71 | 86 | 86 | 96.74 | 96.65 | 96.75 | 89.55 | |
| B. persica (%) | 77.63 | 77.64 | 77.63 | 77.59 | 85.9 | 86 | 89.36 | 89.32 | 89.37 | ||
| B. duttonii (%) | 76 | 75.9 | 76.2 | 76 | 86.40 | 86.1 | 99 | 99.37 | |||
| B. recurrentis (%) | 76 | 76 | 76.1 | 76.1 | 86.47 | 86.3 | 99 | ||||
| B. crocidurae (%) | 76 | 76 | 76.1 | 75.8 | 86.45 | 86.4 | |||||
| B. hermsii (%) | 76 | 76.1 | 76.2 | 76.1 | 91.20 | ||||||
| B. turicatae (%) | 76.1 | 76.3 | 76.2 | 76.1 | |||||||
| B. burgdorferi (%) | 94.8 | 92.5 | 92.8 | ||||||||
| B. afzelii (%) | 92.7 | 93.8 | |||||||||
| B. garinii (%) | 92.7 | ||||||||||
| B. bissetii (%) |