BORRELIA BURGDORFERI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Borrelia burgdorferi mean? 

• BORRELIA BURGDORFERI (noun)
  The noun BORRELIA BURGDORFERI has 1 sense:

1. cause of Lyme disease; transmitted primarily by ticks of genus Ixodes

  Familiarity information: BORRELIA BURGDORFERI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BORRELIA BURGDORFERI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause of Lyme disease; transmitted primarily by ticks of genus Ixodes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Borrelia burgdorferi; Lime disease spirochete

Hypernyms ("Borrelia burgdorferi" is a kind of...):

spirochaete; spirochete (parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals)

Holonyms ("Borrelia burgdorferi" is a member of...):

genus Borrelia (small flexible parasitic spirochetes having three to five wavy spirals)

 Context examples 

An infectious disease caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi.

(Borrelia Burgdorferi Infection, NCI Thesaurus)

Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Borrelia burgdorferi.

(Borrelia burgdorferi, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Lyme disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, a spiral-shaped bacterium transmitted by deer ticks.

(Scientists work toward a rapid point-of-care diagnostic test for Lyme disease, National Institutes of Health)