Coefficient of similarity between genetic loci of local B. persica and other TBRF Borrelia species.

na: not available.All local strains were included in the assessment of similarity range among B. persica isolates studied in this work. We used the sequences of B. persica strain HL2610 (relevant accession numbers are listed in materials and methods) for comparison with other TBRF Borrelia available homologous genes: B. persica Iran rrs (U42297), glpQ of B. persica Iran (EU914143), B. hispanica rrs (U42294), B. hispanica rrs-ileT IGS (FJ827590), B. recurrentis complete genome (CP000993), B. duttonii complete genome (CP000976), B. hermsii complete genome (CP000048) and B. turicatae complete genome (CP000049). Vector NTI advance 11 software was used for sequence alignments.