Burgdorferi definition

Burgdorfer (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms that often have English names of the form "Burgdorfer's ..."
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Origin of burgdorferi

  • Named in a pseudo-Latin manner for any of several naturalists named Burgdorfer, but especially American entomologist Willy Burgdorfer.

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Burgdorferi Sentence Examples

  • Lyme disease-An acute, recurrent, inflammatory disease involving one or a few joints, and transmitted by the bite of ticks carrying the spiral-shaped bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi.

  • Lyme disease is an inflammatory disease transmitted through the bite of a deer tick carrying the spiral-shaped bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi.

  • Borrelia burgdorferi, the spiral-shaped bacterium called a spirochete, that causes Lyme disease, was not discovered until 1981 by Willy Burgdorfer.

  • In the United States, the deer tick in the genus Ixodes is the vector for Borrelia burgdorferi and Lyme disease transmission.

  • Lyme disease is transmitted when a tick carrying the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium bites a human to feed on blood.

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