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?