Borrelia duttoni

Borrelia duttoni
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Spirochaetes
Class:	Spirochaetes
Order:	Spirochaetales
Family:	Spirochaetaceae
Genus:	Borrelia
Species:	B. duttoni
Binomial name
	Borrelia duttoni;

Borrelia duttoni, formerly known as Spirochaeta duttoni,[1] is a species of Borrelia.[2]

It can be associated with relapsing fever. It is named after Joseph Everett Dutton, who died of the disease in 1905 while he and John Lancelot Todd were investigating "tick fever".[3]

References

"Edward Hindle, 1886-1973". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 20: 217–234. 1974. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1974.0009.
Vial L, Durand P, Arnathau C, et al. (September 2006). "Molecular divergences of the Ornithodoros sonrai soft tick species, a vector of human relapsing fever in West Africa". Microbes Infect. 8 (11): 2605–11. doi:10.1016/j.micinf.2006.07.012. PMID 16962358.
Cook, Gordon (2007-09-17). Tropical Medicine: An Illustrated History of The Pioneers. Academic Press. pp. 167–169. ISBN 978-0-08-055939-1. Retrieved 2013-05-08.

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[1] "Edward Hindle, 1886-1973". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 20: 217–234. 1974. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1974.0009.

[pmid16962358-2] Vial L, Durand P, Arnathau C, et al. (September 2006). "Molecular divergences of the Ornithodoros sonrai soft tick species, a vector of human relapsing fever in West Africa". Microbes Infect. 8 (11): 2605–11. doi:10.1016/j.micinf.2006.07.012. PMID 16962358.

[3] Cook, Gordon (2007-09-17). Tropical Medicine: An Illustrated History of The Pioneers. Academic Press. pp. 167–169. ISBN 978-0-08-055939-1. Retrieved 2013-05-08.