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.