Whole-genome sequencing of Western Canadian Borrelia spp. collected from diverse tick and animal hosts reveals short-lived local genotypes interspersed with longer-lived continental genotypes.

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Changing climates are allowing the geographic expansion of ticks and their animal hosts, increasing the risk of Borrelia-caused zoonoses in Canada. However, little is known about the genomic diversity of Borrelia from the west of the Canadian Rockies and from the tick vectors Ixodes pacificus, Ixodes auritulus and Ixodes angustus. Here, we report the whole-genome shotgun sequences of 51 Borrelia isolates from...

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