Antigenic variation is caused by long plasmid segment conversion in a hard tick-borne relapsing fever Borrelia miyamotoi

• Tomohi Takeuchi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, Joint Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan

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• Yasuhiro Gotoh,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Advanced Genomics Center, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan

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• Tetsuya Hayashi,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Hiroki Kawabata,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology-I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjyuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Ai Takano

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: a-takano@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, Joint Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5919-3738

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