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Microbiology, Fifth Edition
Microbiology, 5/e
Lansing M Prescott, Augustana College
Donald A Klein, Colorado State University
John P Harley, Eastern Kentucky University

Microbial Taxonomy

Web Exercise


Access the NCBI Taxonomy browser at http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/tax.html
Search the site to find the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. Why is it classified with the same organisms that cause syphilis and leptospirosis? Which two of the three organisms are more closely related? How do you know?