''Borrelia valaisiana'' is a spirochaete bacterium; strain VS116 is the type strain.
It is a potential
pathogen
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References
Further reading
*Diza, Eudoxia, et al. "Borrelia valaisiana in cerebrospinal fluid." Emerging infectious diseases 10.9 (2004): 1692.
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*Ryffel, Karine, and O. Péter. "From discovery to clinical implications: Borrelia valaisiana." JOURNAL OF SPIROCHETAL AND TICK BORNE DISEASES7.FALL/WIN (2000): 64–72.
External links
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Type strain of ''Borrelia valaisiana'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
valaisiana
Bacteria described in 1997
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