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Host: NC_011244 NEIGHBOURS BLASTN Download Island sequence Download Island gene sequence(s)

NC_011244:1 Borrelia recurrentis A1, complete genome

Host Lineage: Borrelia recurrentis; Borrelia; Spirochaetaceae; Spirochaetales; Spirochaetes; Bacteria

General Information: Borrelia recurrentis isolated from adult patient with louse-borne relapsing fever in Ethiopia. Borrelia recurrentis is the causative agent of louse-borne relapsing fever. Prior to World War II, this organism was responsible for large disease outbreaks with a mortality of up to 40% in much of the world. Currently this disease is limited to parts of Africa, China, and Peru. B. recurrentis is transmitted when infected human body lice (Pediculus humanus) are crushed and their fluids contaminate mucous membranes or breaks in the skin. Relapsing fever is characterized by a period of chills, fever, headache, and malaise, an asymptomatic period, followed by another episode of symptoms. This cycle of relapsing is due to changes in the surface proteins of Borrelia, which allow it to avoid detection and removal by the host immune system. This antigenic variation is the result of homologous recombination of silent proteins into an expressed locus, causing partial or complete replacement of one serotype with another.


This island contains ribosomal proteins or RNA related elements and may indicate a False Positive Prediction!

StartEndLengthCDS descriptionQuickGO ontologyBLASTP
1420420BLASTP
8261242417BLASTP
217432951122vlp protein alpha subfamilyQuickGO ontologyBLASTP
689579891095vlp protein delta subfamilyQuickGO ontologyBLASTP
937710306930BLASTP
1295813524567hypothetical proteinBLASTP
13640147371098beta-N-acetylhexosaminidase putativeQuickGO ontologyBLASTP
14670161631494hypothetical proteinBLASTP
16218180081791phosphoglucomutaseQuickGO ontologyBLASTP
18085191371053tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetaseQuickGO ontologyBLASTP
19134202251092hypothetical proteinBLASTP
2033821195858hypothetical proteinBLASTP
2131522091777hypothetical proteinBLASTP
2209523087993hypothetical proteinBLASTP
2308023469390holo-acyl-carrier protein synthaseQuickGO ontologyBLASTP
2347324321849hypothetical proteinBLASTP