| Borrel bodies | Particles of fowlpox virus; aggregates of Borrel body's in infected cells result in the formation of Bollinger body's. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Borrel's blue stain | <technique> A stain for demonstrating spirochetes, treponemes, and Borrelia organisms, using silver oxide (prepared by means of mixing solutions of silver nitrate and sodium bicarbonate) and methylene blue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Borrel, Amedee | <person> French bacteriologist, 1867-1936. See: Borrel bodies, Borrel's blue stain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| borrelia | A genus of gram-negative, anaerobic, helical bacteria, various species of which produce relapsing fever in man and other animals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Borrelia anserina | A species that causes spirochetosis of fowls; found in the blood of infected geese, ducks, other fowls, and vector ticks; it is the type species of the genus Borrelia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| borrelia burgdorferi | Gram-negative helical bacteria that are the aetiologic agents of lyme disease. These spirochetes are generally transmitted by several species of ixodid ticks. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Borrelia caucasica | A species found as a cause of relapsing fever in the Caucasus; transmitted by Ornithodoros verrucosus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Borrelia crocidurae | A species that causes relapsing fever in Africa, the Near East, and central Asia, and is transmitted by the small variety of the tick Ornithodoros erraticus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Borrelia duttonii | A species causing Central and South African relapsing fever; transmitted by a tick, Ornithodoros moubata. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Borrelia hermsii | A species found as a cause of relapsing fever in British Columbia, California, Colourado, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington; transmitted by a tick, Ornithodoros hermsi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Borrelia hispanica | A species causing relapsing fever in Spain, Portugal, and northwest Africa, transmitted by the large variety of the tick Ornithodorus erratica. (05 Mar 2000) |
| borrelia infections | Infections with bacteria of the genus borrelia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Borrelia latyschewii | A species that causes relapsing fever in Iran and central Asia; transmitted by the tick Ornithodoros tartakovskyi from rodents and reptiles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Borrelia mazzottii | A species that causes relapsing fever in Mexico and Central and South America; transmitted by the tick Ornithodoros talaje. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Borrelia parkeri | A species found as a cause of relapsing fever in the western United States; transmitted by a tick, Ornithodoros parkeri. (05 Mar 2000) |