Clinical Microbiology Reviews, October 1999, p. 633-653, Vol. 12, No. 4
Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic
Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The
Netherlands,1 and Department of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, New York Medical College,
Valhalla, New York 105952
0893-8512/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Molecular Typing of Borrelia burgdorferi
Sensu Lato: Taxonomic, Epidemiological, and Clinical
Implications
SUMMARY
INTRODUCTION
PHENOTYPIC METHODS FOR TYPING OF B. BURGDORFERI SENSU LATO
Serotyping
OspA serotyping.
OspC serotyping.
Multilocus Enzyme Electrophoresis
GENOTYPIC METHODS FOR TYPING OF B. BURGDORFERI SENSU LATO
DNA-DNA Reassociation Analysis
rRNA Restriction Analysis (Ribotyping)
Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis
Plasmid Fingerprinting
Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA
PCR and PCR-Based Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism
Analysis
Species-specific PCR.
rDNA PCR-RFLP analysis.
DNA Sequence Analysis
Comparison and Selection of Typing Methods
TAXONOMY OF B. BURGDORFERI SENSU LATO
Taxonomy and Evolution of B. burgdorferi Sensu
Lato
Species within the B. burgdorferi Sensu Lato
Complex
Borrelia Species Pathogenic to Humans
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS
Geographic Distribution of Different Borrelia
Species
Vectors and Borrelia Species Specificity
Hosts and Borrelia Species Association
Transmission Cycles of Different Borrelia
Species in Nature
IMPLICATIONS FOR CLINICAL DISEASE, DIAGNOSIS, AND VACCINE
DEVELOPMENT
Association of Clinical Disease and Infecting
Borrelia Species
Erythema migrans.
Lyme carditis.
Lyme arthritis and B. burgdorferi sensu stricto
infection.
Neuroborreliosis and B. garinii infection.
Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans and B. afzelii infection.
Implication for Serological Diagnosis
Implication for Vaccine Development
CONCLUSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
REFERENCES
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Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the spirochete that causes human Lyme borreliosis (LB), is a genetically and phenotypically divergent species. In the past several years, various molecular approaches have been developed and used to determine the phenotypic and genetic heterogeneity within the LB-related spirochetes and their potential association with distinct clinical syndromes. These methods include serotyping, multilocus enzyme electrophoresis, DNA-DNA reassociation analysis, rRNA gene restriction analysis (ribotyping), pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, plasmid fingerprinting, randomly amplified polymorphic DNA fingerprinting analysis, species-specific PCR and PCR-based restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis, and sequence analysis of 16S rRNA and other conserved genes. On the basis of DNA-DNA reassociation analysis, 10 different Borrelia species have been described within the B. burgdorferi sensu lato complex: B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, Borrelia garinii, Borrelia afzelii, Borrelia japonica, Borrelia andersonii, Borrelia valaisiana, Borrelia lusitaniae, Borrelia tanukii, Borrelia turdi, and Borrelia bissettii sp. nov. To date, only B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, B. garinii, and B. afzelii are well known to be responsible for causing human disease. Different Borrelia species have been associated with distinct clinical manifestations of LB. In addition, Borrelia species are differentially distributed worldwide and may be maintained through different transmission cycles in nature. In this paper, the molecular methods used for typing of B. burgdorferi sensu lato are reviewed. The current taxonomic status of B. burgdorferi sensu lato and its epidemiological and clinical implications, especiallly correlation between the variable clinical presentations and the infecting Borrelia species, are discussed in detail.
INTRODUCTION
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Lyme borreliosis (LB), or Lyme disease, represents a new global public health problem (16). It is now the most common vector-borne disease in North America (41, 237) and Eurasia (172, 291). In the United States, more than 100,000 LB cases have been reported from 47 states in 1982 through 1996, with more than 16,000 cases in 1996 (41). It is estimated that annually about 50,000 cases occur in Europe (172).
In 1982, the bacterium that causes LB was first isolated by Willy Burgdorfer and colleagues from the hard tick Ixodes dammini (now Ixodes scapularis [175]) collected on Long Island, N.Y. (32). The isolate was subsequently identified as a new species of the genus Borrelia and was named Borrelia burgdorferi in 1984 (111). Since then, hundreds of B. burgdorferi isolates have been cultured worldwide from various geographic regions and biological sources, including Ixodes ticks, their reservoir hosts, and specimens from patients with different clinical syndromes. Molecular analysis has indicated that these B. burgdorferi isolates are genetically and phenotypically divergent. A closely related cluster containing several tick-borne Borrelia species and genomic groups associated with LB has been defined (14, 35, 68, 111, 116, 125, 143, 201, 267). The term "B. burgdorferi sensu lato" is now collectively used to refer to all Borrelia isolates within this cluster and to distinguish it from the species "B. burgdorferi sensu stricto" (strict sense of B. burgdorferi) (14).
Like other Borrelia species, B. burgdorferi sensu lato is a spiral-shaped, gram-negative bacterium with 7 to 11 periplasmic flagella. It varies from 10 to 30 µm in length and 0.2 to 0.5 µm in width (18). The genome of the type strain B. burgdorferi sensu stricto B31 contains a linear chromosome of 910,725 bp, with an average G+C content of 28.6%, and 21 plasmids (9 circular and 12 linear) with a combined size of more than 613,000 bp (38, 65). The G+C content of individual plasmids ranges from 23.1 to 32.3% (65).
Human infection due to B. burgdorferi sensu lato may involve
multiple organs or tissues, resulting in skin, cardiac, neurological and musculoskeletal disorders. Lyme disease (236) was
described as a new clinical entity in 1977 because of a geographic
clustering of children with rheumatoid-like arthritis in Lyme, Conn.
(239, 240, 241). Retrospective analysis revealed that many
of the clinical manifestations of LB had been separately recorded by European clinicians since the end of 19th century (270).
Table 1 lists the spectrum of the major
clinical manifestations of human LB in North America and Europe. It has
been shown that multiple erythema migrans (EM) and Lyme arthritis are
more common in the United States than in Europe, whereas
neuroborreliosis has more frequently occurred in European patients,
especially in children with LB (23, 43, 44, 79, 178, 259).
Borrelial lymphocytoma and acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans (ACA)
are well documented in European LB patients but are rarely recognized
among LB patients in the United States (194, 235). As a
result of its protean clinical manifestations, LB was described as the
new "great imitator" of various human diseases (179).
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Numerous studies indicate that the B. burgdorferi sensu lato population is genetically highly divergent (1, 12, 14, 26, 71, 109, 130, 132, 144, 145, 147, 155, 168, 197, 259, 268). Different Borrelia species may be associated with distinct clinical manifestations of LB (9, 11, 14, 35, 56, 173, 186, 194, 259). In this paper, various molecular methods used for the identification and typing of B. burgdorferi sensu lato are reviewed. The current taxonomic status of B. burgdorferi sensu lato and the epidemiological and clinical implications of typing of B. burgdorferi sensu lato, especially the correlation between the various clinical presentations of LB and the infecting Borrelia species, are discussed.
PHENOTYPIC METHODS FOR TYPING OF B. BURGDORFERI SENSU LATO
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Molecular techniques used for the identification and typing of microorganisms can be categorized as either phenotypic or genetic on the basis of the macromolecular targets used for analysis (249). For B. burgdorferi sensu lato, phenotypic typing systems such as biotyping, phage typing, and antibiotic susceptibility analysis, which are used for various bacterial species, are not feasible. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis protein (187, 257, 276) and fatty acid profile analysis (135, 136) have been used for typing of B. burgdorferi sensu lato, but the conclusions based on both of these phenotypic characteristics are not always reliable. Therefore, serotyping represents the most commonly used phenotypic method for B. burgdorferi sensu lato.
Serotyping
The protein profiles of B. burgdorferi sensu lato isolates are heterogeneous (19, 276, 279, 280). Currently, two serotyping systems, based on the heterogeneity of outer surface protein A (OspA) and outer surface protein C (OspC) of B. burgdorferi sensu lato, are well established.
OspA serotyping. OspA is one of the major outer membrane lipoproteins of B. burgdorferi and has been used for serological diagnosis as well as for vaccine development (97, 119). The molecular mass of OspA ranges from 31 to 34 kDa among the different species of B. burgdorferi sensu lato (267, 280). Based on the differential reactivities of 112 European and 24 North American B. burgdorferi sensu lato isolates with eight OspA-specific monoclonal antibodies (MAbs), seven different OspA serotypes (serotype 1 to 7) were defined by Wilske et al. in 1993 (280). Later, an additional OspA serotype 8 was reported (277). Among Japanese B. burgdorferi sensu lato isolates, OspA serotypes J1 to J11 were recognized (152, 287).
Analysis of phenotypic characteristics in parallel with genetic markers showed that OspA serotypes correlated well with the current classification of B. burgdorferi sensu lato (280). As shown in Fig. 1, OspA serotypes 1, 2, and J11 correspond to B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, B. afzelii, and B. japonica, respectively, and serotypes 3 to 8 (types J1 to J9 in Japan) correspond to B. garinii (278, 287). OspA serotypes are likely to be differentially distributed among tick and human isolates and have been associated with distinct manifestations of LB (268, 277, 278, 280). In a report of 201 European B. burgdorferi sensu lato isolates, 53% of the 90 tick isolates were OspA serotype 6 but only 9% were OspA serotype 2. In contrast, 56% of the 111 isolates from patients with LB were OspA serotype 2 whereas only 13% were OspA serotype 6 (278). Although OspA serotype 4 has often been detected from cerebrospinal fluid CSF specimens of patients with Lyme neuroborreliosis (277), this serotype has not been observed among more than 90 tick isolates from various regions in Europe (278).
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OspC serotyping. OspC is the predominant seroreactive antigen in the early stage of human infection due to B. burgdorferi sensu lato (2, 56, 74, 185). The molecular mass of OspC among the different species of B. burgdorferi sensu lato varies from 20 to 25 kDa (180, 279). Similar to OspA serotyping, analysis of the reactivity of B. burgdorferi sensu lato with a set of MAbs specific for OspC has led to the definition of 16 different OspC serotypes for European and North American isolates (278, 279). Comparison of OspA and OspC serotypes of B. burgdorferi sensu lato suggests that OspC is much more heterogeneous than OspA, especially for B. burgdorferi sensu stricto and B. afzelii strains. While only one OspA serotype for each of these species is known, six corresponding OspC serotypes for B. burgdorferi sensu stricto and four OspC serotypes for B. afzelii were identified (278). The relationships among OspA and OspC serotypes and the delineated Borrelia species are summarized in Fig. 1.
OspA and OspC serotyping provides a simple, straightforward approach for the analysis of phenotypic characteristics among B. burgdorferi sensu lato at the species and subspecies level. Identification of the major B. burgdorferi sensu lato species can be made based on the reactivity of Borrelia isolates with the well-characterized species-specific MAbs (Table 2). However, the utility of both serotyping systems may be hampered due to the lack of OspA or OspC, the aberrant expression of these proteins, and possibly their variation during growth in vitro as well as in vivo (100, 244, 280).
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Multilocus Enzyme Electrophoresis
Multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MLEE) is a protein-based typing method whose results can be directly correlated with the genotype. MLEE is accepted as a promising method to elucidate the population genetics of bacteria (254). For this method, bacterial lysates are subjected to electrophoresis under nondenaturing conditions and the electrophoretic mobility of metabolic enzymes is determined after specific staining. Each electromorph is equated with an allele at the corresponding enzyme genetic locus. Thus, by associating each isolate with an electrophoretic type (ET), MLEE allows the differentiation of isolates by marking them with significant characteristics.
MLEE was used to analyze the population genetics of B. burgdorferi sensu lato in 1992 (26). In this study, 50 B. burgdorferi sensu lato isolates were grouped into 35 ETs, constituting three main divisions separated at a genetic distance greater than 0.75. Each of these three divisions corresponded to either B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, B. garinii, or B. afzelii (26). Later, this method was used by Balmelli and Piffaretti (12) to determine the overall genetic polymorphism of 54 B. burgdorferi sensu lato isolates from different regions of the world. A total of 12 genetic loci were characterized, and 50 ETs were distinguished. Cluster analysis of a matrix of genetic distances for pairs of ETs revealed 11 divisions separated from each other at a genetic distance greater than 0.65. Of these 11 divisions, 10 corresponded to B. burgdorferi sensu stricto (division I), B. garinii (divisions II and III), B. afzelii (division VII), B. japonica (division VIII), B. valaisiana (division V), B. lusitaniae (division IV), B. andersonii (division XI), and B. bissettii sp. nov. (divisions IX and X). Division VI contained only one isolate (CA2). Previously, this isolate had been placed into B. bissettii sp. nov., formerly genomic group DN127 (197, 201). Additional studies are needed to determine whether this strain constitutes a distinct species.
MLEE provides an estimate of the overall genetic relatedness and genetic diversity of B. burgdorferi sensu lato population. Almost all Borrelia isolates analyzed can be classified at the species level, and these assignments agree well with the results obtained from various genetic typing techniques (12, 26). However, this method is labor-intensive, mainly because large quantities of spirochetes have to be grown to obtain enough lysate for MLEE analysis. Therefore, MLEE is now used mainly to elucidate the population genetics of B. burgdorferi sensu lato.
GENOTYPIC METHODS FOR TYPING OF B. BURGDORFERI SENSU LATO
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Molecular typing based on the genetic characteristics of microorganisms can provide more precise information on the diversity of pathogenic bacteria. During the past several years, a number of genotyping methods have been used to assess the genetic relationships among B. burgdorferi sensu lato species.
DNA-DNA Reassociation Analysis
DNA-DNA reassociation analysis is acknowledged to be a superior
method for examining relationships between closely related taxa and
represents the best applicable procedure for bacterial taxonomy at
present (231). As recommended by the Ad Hoc Committee on
reconciliation of approaches to bacterial systematics, the phylogenetic
definition of a species generally would include strains with
approximately 70% or more DNA-DNA relatedness and with a 
Tm of 5°C or less (269).
The DNA reassociation value among strains in the genus Borrelia varies, ranging from 30 to 100% (18, 111). It is reported that the level of DNA homology between Borrelia species causing relapsing fever and those causing LB is about 30 to 44% (18). Among different B. burgdorferi sensu lato species, the level of DNA relatedness is about 48 to 70% (14, 111, 197). For example, the type strain B. afzelii VS461 has 48, 65, 54, 64, and 58% DNA homology to the type strains B. burgdorferi sensu stricto B31, B. garinii 20047 (14), B. japonica HO14 (116), B. valaisiana VS116, and B. lusitaniae PotiB2, respectively (197).
Because plasmid DNA may account for one third of the total genome of B. burgdorferi sensu lato, the results of DNA-DNA hybridization will also be affected by differences in the plasmid contents between strains. It is expected that plasmid loss occurring during in vitro cultivation (222) may result in a DNA-DNA relatedness below 100% between an isolate and its subcultured variants or among certain highly related strains. However, no data is currently available on this issue, and Borrelia isolates showing less than 70% homology to each other in DNA-DNA reassociation analysis do belong to different genospecies when other genetic techniques such as sequencing of the chromosomal genes are used for typing (14, 57, 127).
DNA hybridization is currently used as the reference method for species delineation of B. burgdorferi sensu lato (14, 116, 197). On the basis of DNA-DNA relatedness, several different Borrelia species or genomic groups associated with LB have been identified (see "Taxonomy of B. burgdorferi sensu lato," below, for details).
rRNA Restriction Analysis (Ribotyping)
Ribotyping has been frequently used for both taxonomic purposes and subgroup characterization of microorganisms belonging to different genera and species (195). Grouping of bacteria by ribotyping is based on the profiles obtained by restriction fragment patterns of chromosomal DNA digested with appropriate restriction enzymes and hybridized with a probe derived from a highly conserved rRNA. The restriction enzymes EcoRI, EcoRV, PstI, HincII, HpaI, and HindIII and probes from 16S + 23S rRNA of Escherichia coli (14, 267) or from 16S rRNA (144), 23S rRNA (71), or 5S rRNA (132, 225) of the LB spirochete have been successfully used to identify B. burgdorferi sensu lato strains at the species level. An example of the restriction patterns obtained after EcoRV digestion of genomic DNAs from isolates belonging to different Borrelia species is summarized by Postic et al. (196). It is noteworthy that almost all of the LB-related spirochetes from a 3.2-kb EcoRV (14, 71), a 3.2-kb HpaI (132, 225), or a 2.2-kb HindIII (259) restriction fragment. Therefore, these bands can be used as genetic markers for the identification of B. burgdorferi sensu lato species. In addition, species-specific HindIII fragments were recognized by ribotyping for B. burgdorferi sensu stricto (1.45 kb), B. garinii (1.2 kb), and B. afzelii (4.0 and 1.45 kb) (259). These species-specific bands can be used to distinguish the three human pathogenic B. burgdorferi sensu lato species from each other.
A large number of B. burgdorferi sensu lato isolates from different sources have been analyzed by ribotyping (14, 71, 130, 164, 168, 259). In these studies, the restriction patterns of B. burgdorferi sensu stricto and B. afzelii appear very homogeneous whereas B. garinii is more heterogeneous. In a study including 51 Borrelia isolates (21 from Far Eastern Russia, Japan, and China; 20 from Europe; and 10 from North America), the 18 B. burgdorferi sensu stricto isolates belonged to only one ribotype while the 10 B. afzelii isolates showed three ribotypes and the 23 B. garinii isolates exhibited nine ribotypes (71). Thus, Borrelia strains can be distinguished by ribotyping at both species and subspecies levels. The result of ribotyping is rather reproducible. A relative drawback of this method is that more spirochetal DNAs are required than for other PCR-based typing approaches.
Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis
Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) was first described in 1984 as a tool for examining the chromosomal DNA profiles of eukaryotic organisms (224). Subsequently, it has proven to be a highly effective molecular typing technique for many bacterial species (250). For this method, the bacterial genomic DNA is separated by PFGE after digestion with a restriction enzyme having relatively few recognition sites. Discrimination of the species and among strains is based on the large restriction fragment length polymorphism (LRFLP) of the chromosomal DNAs.
After digestion of the genome with MluI, the LRFLPs of B. burgdorferi sensu lato are both species and strain specific. As described by Belfaiza et al. (20) and confirmed by others, all three LB-causing B. burgdorferi sensu lato species are characterized by one to three species-specific fragments: a band at 135 kb for B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, two bands at 220 and 80 kb for B. garinii, and three bands at 460, 320, and 90 kb for B. afzelii isolates (33, 34, 72, 155, 191, 192). The PFGE method also allows the discrimination between strains within each Borrelia species. For example, 20 B. burgdorferi sensu stricto isolates were separated into 10 MluI LRFLPs, while 24 B. garinii and 6 B. japonica isolates exhibited 4 and 2 LRFLPs, respectively (20, 198, 199). Strikingly, only a single MluI pattern was observed among the 20 B. afzelii isolates (20, 198). In addition, PFGE can be used to construct physical maps of the genomes and to define different groups of B. burgdorferi sensu lato by combination of the chromosomal LRFLPs resulting from digestion of a set of restriction enzymes, e.g., MluI, SacI, BssHII, EagI, SmaI, ApaI, CspI, and SgraAI (36, 37, 51, 174).
PFGE represents a reproducible and highly discriminative typing method for B. burgdorferi sensu lato. Characterization of isolates by PFGE usually correlates well with species designation of B. burgdorferi sensu lato by other methods (20, 72). The findings from studies using this method have both taxonomic and clinical implications (20, 155). Mathiesen et al. (155) reported that B. burgdorferi sensu lato isolates from patients in the United States, irrespective of their geographic region, belonged to a single rDNA cluster. In this study, results obtained from PFGE and ospA sequence analysis were in accordance.
Plasmid Fingerprinting
B. burgdorferi sensu lato strains have unusual double-stranded linear plasmids, in addition to the typical supercoiled circular plasmids (17, 65, 98, 107). Usually, plasmids are present at a low copy number of approximately one to two per chromosome equivalent (37, 98). There may be as many as 21 or more different plasmids within one spirochete cell (38, 65). Since both the number and the size of plasmids can vary among strains, plasmid profile analysis may be used for strain and species identification of B. burgdorferi sensu lato.
Xu and Johnson (285) studied 40 B. burgdorferi sensu lato isolates from diverse biological sources and geographical locations by plasmid fingerprinting. The number of plasmids in the B. burgdorferi sensu lato isolates ranged from 4 to 10, and the size of these plasmids ranged from 13.3 to 57.7 kb. The overall plasmid profiles might correlate with the species of B. burgdorferi sensu lato, although definite species-specific plasmids could not be identified in the three Borrelia species studied. Nevertheless, only linear plasmids, but not circular plasmids, are well separated in plasmid fingerprinting (285). The usefulness of plasmid fingerprinting for the classification of B. burgdorferi sensu lato seems to be limited since the results could be affected simply by the loss of plasmids during in vitro cultivation (15, 222, 286) or by inter- and intraplasmidic recombination (38, 212).
Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA
There is an increasing interest in the molecular typing of bacteria by using randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprinting (275), or arbitrarily primed PCR (AP-PCR) (271). Both of these techniques use low-stringency PCR amplification with a single primer with an arbitrary sequence to generate strain-specific arrays of anonymous DNA fragments. In an early AP-PCR study, 29 B. burgdorferi sensu lato isolates were divided into three genospecies-specific groups (272). Later, AP-PCR was used to investigate the evolution of B. burgdorferi sensu stricto (64). More recently, this approach was evaluated by typing a large collection of B. burgdorferi sensu lato isolates from various biological and geographical sources (268). In this study, a total of 136 B. burgdorferi sensu lato strains were divided into seven genetic clusters, based on the DNA fingerprints generated with four arbitrary primers (Fig. 2). Six clusters contained 135 isolates corresponding to the well-defined species. One isolate did not belong to any of the known LB-related Borrelia species. Furthermore, pathogenic subgroups of B. garinii from LB patients with disseminated infections were identified by this analysis (268). Since RAPD is a highly discriminatory method and is easy to perform, this method is now a powerful tool to distinguish the different Borrelia species from each other as well as to recognize Borrelia strains within each of the species (268).
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PCR and PCR-Based Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis
Species-specific PCR. PCR amplification with species-specific primers, in which the conserved 16S rRNA gene (131, 141) or species-specific plasmid gene loci (159, 160) are targeted, can be used directly for species identification of the LB spirochetes. The former approach has been used to differentiate the three human pathogenic species, B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, B. garinii, and B. afzelii (121, 141), as well as B. valaisiana (131), from each other. However, cross-amplification between Borrelia species may occur when using primers derived from the species-specific plasmid sequences (159).
rDNA PCR-RFLP analysis. The rrn cluster of most B. burgdorferi sensu lato strains contains a single copy of 16S rRNA (rrs) and tandem repeated 23S rRNA (rrlA and rrlB) and 5S rRNA (rrfA and rrfB) (Fig. 3) (73, 77, 174, 225). The rDNA gene cluster is located at the center of the linear chromosome and is arranged in the following order: rrs-rrlA-rrfA-rrlB-rrfB. Three different PCR-RFLP approaches have been designed for B. burgdorferi sensu lato, based on the unique rRNA structure of these microorganisms, i.e., rrs, rrfA-rrlB spacer, and rrs-rrlA spacer.
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DNA Sequence Analysis
Whole DNA-DNA reassociation analysis is the most robust approach by which B. burgdorferi sensu lato can be classified based on phylogenetic relationships since the results are ultimately based on the entire genome sequence of the organism. Generally, this method is useful for the study of bacterial genetics, evolution, taxonomy, and epidemiology (231). However, DNA sequence analysis of some highly conserved gene loci can be used as a suitable alternative method. For example, rrs, fla, and ospA have been used for this purpose with B. burgdorferi sensu lato.
Sequence analysis of bacterial rrs has been widely used for
assessing the evolutionary history and species identification of
B. burgdorferi sensu lato (68, 127, 142, 143, 201,
267). More than 200 rrs sequences from various
B. burgdorferi sensu lato species have been determined (many
of them partial sequences) and are now available from the GenBank
database (22). The DNA sequences of rrs among
strains from different B. burgdorferi sensu lato species are
highly homologous, ranging from 95.3 to 99.6% (127). By
using a 1,368-bp portion of the rrs gene from representative isolates of each Borrelia species obtained from diverse
geographic regions and various biological sources (Table
4), a phylogenetic tree was constructed
by the neighbour-joining method and is presented in Fig.
4. Borrelia isolates belonging
to distinct species fall into individual clusters in the phylogenetic
tree. Thus, sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA gene represents a
reliable method for inferring the taxa of B. burgdorferi
sensu lato (68, 127, 142, 201, 267).
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The fla gene (76), now known as flaB, encodes a 41-kDa flagellin protein or FlaB (78) and is located on the linear chromosome (65). By phylogenetic analysis based on fla gene sequences, the relapsing-fever borreliae can be separated from the LB-related borreliae and different B. burgdorferi sensu lato species can also be distinguished from each other (69, 70).
The ospA gene, located on a 49- to 57-kb linear plasmid (24, 217), is present in almost all B. burgdorferi sensu lato isolates (266, 285). Sequence analysis of ospA genes showed homogeneity within B. burgdorferi sensu stricto and B. afzelii but revealed major subgroups within the B. garinii species (274, 280). Although lateral gene transfer and recombination of ospA between different Borrelia species may occur, the frequency of such events is rather low (57, 212). Thus, cluster analysis of the ospA gene could provide useful phylogenetic information. Usually, the clustering of Borrelia strains in the phylogenetic tree based on the sequence of ospA and its predicted amino acid sequence is in agreement with the classification based on sequence analysis of conserved chromosomal genes such as rrs (155), p93 (57), and fla (69), as well as with data obtained by PFGE (33, 155) and RAPD fingerprinting (64, 268). However, a recent study of eight B. valaisiana isolates showed that ospA sequence analysis might not be appropriate for species identification of B. burgdorferi sensu lato (266).
Comparative analysis of the deduced amino acids sequences from B. burgdorferi sensu lato revealed a species-specific motif in the conserved amino-terminal of the OspC protein (66, 67, 109, 137). Although lateral transfer of ospC genes between species has been described (137, 205, 264), the species-specific motif region had not been transferred except for a few B. valaisiana isolates, which possibly obtained a complete ospC gene from B. afzelii or B. garinii (264). However, it is usually inconclusive for assignment of an isolate to a specific Borrelia species because of the overall high variability of ospC sequences (109, 252, 281) and lateral transfer of ospC gene between species (137, 205, 264).
Sequence analysis of other gene loci such as p93 (57), hbb (258), p39 (211), hsp60 (263), and hsp70 (263) can provide additional information for species identification of B. burgdorferi sensu lato.
Comparison and Selection of Typing Methods
Molecular typing systems can be characterized in terms of typeability, reproducibility, discriminatory power, ease of performance, and ease of interpretation (6, 249). The choice between various methods depends on a number of factors, such as the objectives of the study, the level of discriminatory power required, the kinds of DNA preparations and laboratory conditions available, and the technical skills of laboratory personnel. At this point, we recommend the ribosomal spacer PCR-RFLP as the method for Borrelia species identification during molecular epidemiological studies of B. burgdorferi sensu lato infection in Ixodes ticks, reservoir hosts, and patients. The discriminatory power of PFGE and RAPD is high, and both methods can be used to evaluate the genetic heterogeneity within Borrelia species. RAPD is easier to perform than PFGE and can be used to monitor large numbers of isolates. DNA-DNA reassociation analysis is currently the reference method for species delineation, although it is a time-consuming and labor-intensive method. Therefore, this method is used mainly for confirmation of the taxonomic status of isolates that are not identifiable or typeable by ribosomal spacer RFLP and rrs sequence analysis, as well as for the identification of newly recognized Borrelia species or genomic groups.
TAXONOMY OF B. BURGDORFERI SENSU LATO
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Taxonomy and Evolution of B. burgdorferi Sensu Lato
The spirochetes are one of the few major bacterial groups whose natural phylogenetic relationships are evident at the level of gross phenotypic characteristics. These organisms form a coherent taxon composed of six major groups as indicated by phylogenetic analysis (183, 282). The taxonomy of the order Spirochetae is out of the range of this review and can be found in two references (183, 233). Our interest focuses on the taxonomy of the genus Borrelia, especially the Borrelia species within the B. burgdorferi sensu lato complex.
The genus Borrelia represents a tight phylogenetic cluster, which is differentiated from other spirochetal phylogenetic groups by base signature analysis of rrs (183). More than 20 species have been identified within the genus so far (18, 223). These Borrelia species are usually categorized into two major categories, the relapsing-fever borreliae and the LB borreliae, on the basis of the differences between their ecological and genetic characteristics (18).
MLEE analysis has revealed a clonal population structure of B. burgdorferi sensu lato based upon the linkage disequilibrium of allele distributions (26), indicating that in the absence of recombination, all genes in strains belonging to the same species have a common evolutionary history. This conclusion has also been drawn from RAPD fingerprinting (13) and comparison of the sequences of the highly conserved chromosomal genes fla and p93 (57). In addition, clonal populations were evidenced by the conserved chromosomal gene order in different B. burgdorferi sensu lato species (36, 174). It is not clear whether such populations are strictly clonal, since localized horizontal gene transfer of the outer membrane protein-encoding genes has been found in B. burgdorferi sensu lato (137, 145, 146, 205, 212, 264). For example, a close examination of the highly variable ospC gene indicated that lateral gene transfer might have occurred quite frequently, not only between members of the same species but also between strains from different species (137). As a result of such gene transfer and subsequent recombination, the linkage disequilibrium among different species might be disturbed. This would lead to a different topology of phylogenetic relationship based on ospC sequence analysis compared to that based on rrs gene analysis. Nevertheless, in general, ospC genes from strains of the same species appear to be more closely related to each other than to ospC genes from different species. Furthermore, species-specific motifs recognized in the conserved amino terminal of the OspC proteins (67, 109, 137) indicate that ospC is still clonally inherited.
It is assumed that speciation among B. burgdorferi sensu lato is only a recent phenomenon, since divergence of the rrs gene sequences among representatives of different Borrelia species may not exceed 1% (127). Assuming a clonal evolution of B. burgdorferi sensu lato, one may predict that the greater the genetic diversity of the isolates within a given species, the longer the period available for evolution. Since the diversity of B. burgdorferi sensu lato in Eurasia is much greater than in North America, it is likely that this complex originated in Eurasia. Furthermore, B. garinii, which shows the greatest genetic heterogeneity by most analytical methods, is most likely the species which is closest to the common ancestor of B. burgdorferi sensu lato, as was recently proposed (64, 205).
Species within the B. burgdorferi Sensu Lato Complex
Different Borrelia species can be distinguished from
each other by analysis of their phenotypic features, such as reactivity with species-specific MAbs (Table 2), or by genetic typing as outlined
in the previous section. Since the discovery of B. burgdorferi in 1982, 10 different Borrelia species or
genomic groups within the B. burgdorferi sensu lato complex
have been identified. Nine are separated at the species level and were
designated B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, B. garinii (14), B. afzelii (14,
35), B. japonica (116), B. valaisiana (267), B. lusitaniae
(127), B. andersonii (143), B. tanukii (68), and B. turdi (68)
(the name has been corrected from B. turdae
[108]). More recently, the 10th genomic group,
characterized by isolate DN127 (197), has been reevaluated
and proposed as a new species, B. bissettii sp. nov.
(201). The major ecological and human pathogenic
characteristics of the LB-related B. burgdorferi sensu lato
species, as well as their geographic distributions, are summarized in
Table 5.
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A number of atypical Borrelia isolates, not clearly belonging to one of the described species, have been cultured from North America (36, 155, 191, 201), Europe (193, 268), and China (130, 291). One of these was cultured from a patient with LB in Europe (265, 268). It is reasonable to expect that more Borrelia species will be recognized as more isolates are recovered from divergent biological and geographic sources and are studied by various molecular typing methods.
Borrelia Species Pathogenic to Humans
Not all strains from the described Borrelia species or genomic groups are pathogenic for humans. Currently, only B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, B. garinii, and B. afzelii have been cultured frequently from patients with LB (33, 134, 155, 161, 246, 259, 280). These three major species appear to be responsible for causing different clinical syndromes of human LB (11, 35, 56, 173, 259). A recent study of nine B. burgdorferi sensu lato isolates recovered from patients with LB in Slovenia revealed that they were most closely related to the North American isolate 25015, which belongs to B. bissettii sp. nov. (193, 247). Thus, B. bissettii sp. nov. isolates may represent the fourth Borrelia species that could cause human LB. Interestingly, B. bissettii sp. nov. is the second reported B. burgdorferi sensu lato species (B. burgdorferi sensu stricto is the other) to be present in both the Old World and New World (193, 247). B. valaisiana is widely distributed in European countries as well as in Asia (267). It might be pathogenic for humans, since DNA specific for this species has been detected by PCR from patients with LB (209).
Although it is uncertain whether the other LB-related Borrelia species cause human disease, their pathogenic role is far less important than that of the three major Borrelia species. For example, B. japonica was only weakly pathogenic in mice (114). Although I. ovatus ticks, the specific vector for B. japonica, are distributed widely in Japan and frequently bite humans, no LB patients with a confirmed I. ovatus tick bite have been reported, except for one case suspected on the basis of the serological findings (153).
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Geographic Distribution of Different Borrelia Species
LB is a globally distributed zoonosis (21, 221). Human cases occur predominantly in the northern hemisphere (162, 221). Three LB-associated Borrelia species, B. burgdorferi sensu stricto (111), B. andersonii (143), and B. bissettii sp. nov. (201), are recognized in North America. B. burgdorferi sensu stricto is widely distributed in the northeast, midwest, and western regions of the United States (41). It is the only Borrelia species cultured from patients with LB in North America. B. andersonii and B. bissettii sp. nov. were cultured mainly from ticks and small mammals from New York and California, respectively (4, 28, 201).
B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, B. garinii, B. afzelii, B. valaisiana, B. lusitaniae, and B. bissettii sp. nov. have been documented in Europe. The geographic distribution of these species on the European continent has been reviewed recently based on a total of 1,263 records (738 isolates and 525 molecular DNA detections) from 26 countries (101). B. garinii and B. afzelii are the most frequently cultured species in Europe. B. burgdorferi sensu stricto is distributed mainly in western European countries but is rarely recognized in eastern areas of Europe. B. valaisiana has been cultured or detected in ticks or avian reservoirs from at least eight European countries, including the United Kingdom (123), Ireland (117, 118), The Netherlands (207, 267), Switzerland (105, 187, 188), Germany (131, 216), Italy (48), Croatia (86, 206), and the Czech Republic (200). This species seems abundantly present in ticks in Ireland, Germany, and Croatia (118, 131, 206). Only a few B. lusitaniae strains have been isolated in Portugal (197), the Czech Republic, Moldova, and Ukraine (200). Nine isolates with genotypic and phenotypic similarity to B. bissettii sp. nov. have been cultured in Slovenia (193, 247).
Six B. burgdorferi sensu lato species have been reported in Far Eastern Russia and Asian countries. B. garinii and B. afzelii are largely found throughout the range of I. persulcatus ticks in China (129, 248, 290), Japan (72, 164), Korea (181), and Far Eastern Russia (147, 200, 218). B. japonica, B. tanukii, and B. turdi are limited to Japan (68, 116, 149). One isolate from an I. columnae tick in Japan was classified as B. valaisiana (267). The presence of B. burgdorferi sensu stricto in Asia is controversial. Although most reports suggest that B. burgdorferi sensu stricto is absent (129, 147, 164, 200, 248), two recent studies indicated the presence of this Borrelia species in the mainland of China (130) and in Taiwan (226).
LB cases in the southern hemisphere including South America (10), Africa (158, 219), and Australia (157) have been reported. However, these cases were based on serology only. B. burgdorferi sensu lato has not been isolated from local Ixodes ticks or any other suspected vectors or patients (31, 213). Recently, B. garinii was recovered from a patient with LB in Australia; however, the infection may have been acquired in Europe (103).
Vectors and Borrelia Species Specificity
The principal vectors of B. burgdorferi sensu lato are ticks of the I. ricinus complex (31). These include I. scapularis (I. dammini) and I. pacificus in the United States, I. ricinus in Europe, and I. persulcatus in Asian Russia, China and Japan (3, 31, 53, 164, 290). These vectors for B. burgdorferi sensu lato are not strictly species specific, and the specificity displayed by many of the relapsing-fever borreliae for a single tick species is probably not applicable to the LB spirochetes. For example, the European sheep tick I. ricinus has been recognized as a vector of all three human pathogenic Borrelia species, B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, B. garinii, and B. afzelii (80, 189). I. scapularis and I. pacificus in the United States and I. ricinus in Europe are vectors of B. burgdorferi sensu stricto (31, 208, 236).
On the other hand, B. japonica is found mainly in I. ovatus in Japan, and B. andersonii appears to be restricted to I. dentatus in the United States. Furthermore, B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, the most widely distributed Borrelia species in I. scapularis in North America and I. ricinus in Europe, is rarely found in the I. persulcatus regions in Far Eastern Asia (129, 164, 200). These findings suggest that some particular vector species will harbor and transmit only one specific Borrelia species. A recent comparative study of the three main clusters of European I. ricinus indicated significant differences in their susceptibility to B. afzelii (60). This finding may explain, in part, the uneven distributions of Borrelia species in Europe.
Both I. ricinus and I. persulatus can be infected with B. garinii and B. afzelii (102, 164, 200, 291). Other Borrelia species may also be transmitted by several vector species of the I. ricinus group (e.g., B. bissettii sp. nov. strains have been isolated from I. neotomae [now I. spinipalpis] [171], I. scapularis, and I. pacificus in the United States [197], as well as from I. ricinus in Europe [247]). Although B. valaisiana and B. lusitaniae are cultured mainly from European I. ricinus ticks, the former species has also been cultured from I. columnae ticks in Japan (67, 127, 267).
Additional tick vectors as well as hematophagous insects may play a role in maintenance of B. burgdorferi sensu lato in enzootic cycles in nature and occasionally in transmitting B. burgdorferi sensu lato to humans (31). These include I. uriae, Dermacentor variabilis, D. parumapertus, Amblyomma americanum, Rhipicephalus sanguineus, and Haemaphysalis leporislustris in North America (31); I. hexagonus, I. uriae, I. trianguliceps, I. acuminatus, I. frontalis, D. reticulatus, and H. punctata in Europe (80, 229); I. tanuki and I. turdus in Japan (67); and I. granulatus, H. bispinosa, H. concinna, and H. longicornis in southern China (290, 291). The relationship between these possible tick vectors and various B. burgdorferi sensu lato species remains unknown.
Mixed infections of multiple B. burgdorferi sensu lato species have been found in ticks (131, 160, 164, 190, 200, 206), reservoir hosts (123, 163, 164, 200), and in patients with LB (52, 133, 209). The prevalence of mixed infections in ticks varies from 5 to 40% in different geographic regions (131, 160, 190, 200). Such mixed infections may result directly from feeding on a host infected with multiple Borrelia species or through cofeeding transmission, by which various spirochetes may be exchanged among ticks infesting a single host (84, 165, 184, 204). Alternatively, ticks may acquire different Borrelia species from different individual hosts during their three life cycle stages, since the spirochetes can survive through the molts and are present in all subsequent stages of the vectors (3, 31).
Hosts and Borrelia Species Association
B. burgdorferi sensu stricto in the United States and B. garinii in Eurasia have been isolated from a large diversity of mammalian hosts and birds (3, 81, 166, 176). In contrast, B. afzelii in Eurasia and B. burgdorferi sensu stricto in Europe were isolated mainly from rodents (81, 83). Many species of mammals are hosts of B. japonica in Japan (150, 151). However, birds are assumed to be the only hosts for B. valaisiana in Europe, since no B. valaisiana isolate has been cultured or detected from mammals or rodents to date (105, 123, 267). Only a few B. lusitaniae strains were isolated from I. ricinus in southern, central, and eastern Europe (127, 200). Data for hosts of this species are currently not available. B. andersonii and B. bissettii sp. nov. in North America seem to involve particular and narrow host spectra, i.e., cottontail rabbits (Sylvilagus floridanus) (4) and wood mice (Neotomae fuscipes) (28), respectively, although further studies are necessary to clarify these unique relationships.
Transmission Cycles of Different Borrelia Species in Nature
Increasing data indicate that two specific enzootic transmission cycles (rodent-tick and bird-tick) are involved in maintaining different B. burgdorferi sensu lato species in nature, as suggested by Nakao et al. (164) and Humair et al. (104). Reservoir hosts infected by various B. burgdorferi sensu lato species may not transmit them to ticks with equal efficiency (55, 122, 123, 154, 214). Hosts acting as filters seem to be predisposed to mainly transmitting one species to ticks, to the detriment of other genomic groups (123). The mechanisms underlying the apparent differential transmission of B. burgdorferi sensu lato by various mammalian and avian hosts remain to be determined, although a recent study revealed that differences in serum complement sensitivity among Borrelia species could be a key factor in LB ecology (124).
Different B. burgdorferi sensu lato species may be maintained through distinct transmission cycles in natural foci (83, 104, 105, 106, 123, 164). In North America, B. burgdorferi sensu stricto is maintained mainly by the rodent (white-foot mice, Peromyscus leucopus)-tick cycle, while the tick-infested resident and migrant birds are potentially important in regional spread and in dissemination of the spirochetes (3, 166, 230, 232). B. andersonii and B. bissettii sp. nov. have their own distinct enzootic cycles involving other tick vectors and vertebrate hosts (4, 28, 201). In Eurasia, the major species, B. afzelii, is circulated mainly between the reservoirs, particular Apodemus mice and Clethrionomys voles, and Ixodes ticks (81, 104, 106, 164) whereas B. garinii may be maintained predominantly through the bird-tick transmission cycle, especially in northern Europe (176, 177). B. valaisiana has been detected in various avian reservoirs but never in rodent hosts (105, 123, 267). Therefore, this species may not survive and persist in small mammals and most probably circulates between its avian reservoirs and ticks in natural foci (123).
IMPLICATIONS FOR CLINICAL DISEASE, DIAGNOSIS, AND VACCINE
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Given the genetic diversity of B. burgdorferi sensu lato and the protean disease manifestations of LB, the use of molecular typing provides valuable data for possible elucidation of the association of particular Borrelia species with the distinct clinical manifestations of LB (259). Molecular typing may also contribute to establishing a correlation between the spirochetal subtypes and the occurrence and severity of particular clinical manifestations of LB (133, 268, 284). Such data are important for the clinical and laboratory diagnosis of LB as well as for vaccine development.
Association of Clinical Disease and Infecting Borrelia Species
The difficulty in culturing B. burgdorferi sensu lato
from clinical specimens, other than skin, has hampered assessments of the association between Borrelia species and distinct
clinical entities. However, there is increasing evidence supporting
such an association. First, numerous Borrelia isolates
recovered worldwide from LB patients with different clinical syndromes
have been subjected to molecular typing analysis. We reviewed these
reports on isolates from LB patients present in the Medline database
from 1992 through October 1998. Only cultured isolates that had been
subjected to molecular typing analysis and assigned properly to their
taxon, and whose clinical source was indicated, were included in the analysis. The distribution of Borrelia species of 472 B. burgdorferi sensu lato isolates recovered from patients
is summarized in Table 6. Different
species of B. burgdorferi sensu lato are associated with
distinct clinical manifestations of LB: Lyme arthritis is associated
with B. burgdorferi sensu stricto infection,
neuroborreliosis is associated with B. garinii infection,
and ACA is associated with B. afzelii infection (11,
14, 35, 155, 173, 186, 194, 197, 259, 273, 280). In a recent
study, Wormser et al. demonstrated a significant association between
the infecting genotype of B. burgdorferi in an EM lesion and
the presence of spirochetemia or multiple EM lesions, suggesting that
hematogenous dissemination is related to the B. burgdorferi
genotype (284). A limitation of this analysis may be the
differences in culture recovery for different B. burgdorferi
sensu lato species or genotypes. Two reports suggest that the
distribution of genotypes in tick or human tissue specimens, as
measured by sequencing or PCR-RFLP analysis, is different from that
obtained by culture (133, 170). Another confounding factor
may be publication bias (87). Nevertheless, molecular
analysis clearly points to a correlation between genotype and clinical
manifestation. Second, a number of European studies showed that the
antibody responses in LB patients to the three B. burgdorferi sensu lato pathogens varied with disease manifestation (5, 8, 9, 56, 169). For example, Assous et al. studied sera
from 67 LB patients and found that sera from 55% of the 20 patients
with Lyme arthritis had preferential reactivity (a serum sample showed
preferential reactivity when it detected two or more protein bands with
a bacterial suspension of a given species compared to suspensions of
the other Borrelia species) with a B. burgdorferi
sensu stricto isolate, sera from 47% of the 23 patients with
neuroborreliosis had more reactivity with a B. garinii strain, and sera from 100% of the 8 patients with ACA had greater reactivity with a B. afzelii strain in Western blot analysis
(8, 9). Third, in vitro experiments in which the tissue
tropism of Borrelia species was evaluated by incubation of
various cultured Borrelia species with human brain tissue
have provided evidence that B. garinii invaded brain tissue
more efficiently than did B. burgdorferi sensu stricto and
B. afzelii (289).
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The mechanisms by which infection with different Borrelia species may lead to distinct clinical syndromes of LB are unclear. Different serum susceptibility (27, 260) and tissue tropism among Borrelia species may in part account for such differences (49, 128, 182, 253, 289). Although each of the three human pathogenic B. burgdorferi sensu lato species has been associated with different clinical syndromes of LB, the clinical spectrum caused by these species can largely overlap.
Erythema migrans. EM is an expanding red or bluish-red rash, often with central clearing, which occurs in up to 90% of patients with objective evidence of LB (162). Usually, EM appears at the early stage of B. burgdorferi sensu lato infection. All three species of B. burgdorferi sensu lato pathogenic to humans have been repeatedly cultured from skin biopsy specimens from patients with EM (Table 6). No significant difference between the occurrence of EM and infection with a particular Borrelia species has been reported. This is to be expected since all infections with B. burgdorferi causing LB result from an initial tick bite. However, it was noted that EM patients infected with B. burgdorferi sensu stricto in North America complained more frequently of systemic symptoms than did EM patients in Eurasia (161, 245, 246), where EM is caused predominantly by infection due to B. afzelii (216, 259).
Lyme carditis. Lyme carditis is a well-known clinical manifestation in both North American and European patients with LB (46, 238, 261). Early studies showed that the frequency of this syndrome was considerably higher in North America, where about 4 to 10% of untreated LB patients presented with cardiac abnormalities (44, 236), than in Europe, where only 0.5 to 4% of untreated LB patients presented with similar abnormalities (46, 162, 178). However, the incidence has been lower in two recent population-based studies in the United States and in Europe (23, 79). The only Borrelia isolate recovered from a myocardial specimen of an Austrian patient in Europe to date was typed as B. burgdorferi sensu stricto (216, 234).
Lyme arthritis and B. burgdorferi sensu stricto infection. Lyme arthritis is the most common musculoskeletal symptom resulting from B. burgdorferi sensu stricto infection in North America. It occurs either at the early disseminated stage or as a more chronic manifestation. About 60% of untreated patients with EM experienced brief attacks of monoarticular or oligoarticular arthritis in the United States (44, 236, 242). In contrast, only 3 to 15% of patients suffered from arthritis in Europe (23, 45, 178), where B. garinii and B. afzelii are more frequently recovered than B. burgdorferi sensu stricto (101, 216). This unequal distribution of Borrelia species may directly be related to the disparity in the reported incidence of Lyme arthritis between North America and European countries. Although different B. burgdorferi sensu lato species pathogenic to humans can be detected or recovered from the joint or synovial tissue in animal experimental studies (220, 288) and in patients with Lyme arthritis (59, 167, 262), the only three Borrelia isolates recovered from the synovial fluids of patients with Lyme arthritis were typed as B. burgdorferi sensu stricto (12, 216).
Neuroborreliosis and B. garinii infection. Neuroborreliosis is the most frequent manifestation of disseminated infection in Europe (43, 75, 113) and is a common symptom in North American LB patients as well (44, 91). Both the central and peripheral nervous system can be involved (90, 120). All three species, B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, B. garinii, and B. afzelii, are known to cause Lyme neuroborreliosis. In European patients, B. garinii constituted up to 72% (n = 55) of the 76 Borrelia isolates or DNAs detected in human CSF samples, whereas 8% (n = 6) and 20% (n = 15) of the these specimens were identified as B. burgdorferi sensu stricto and B. afzelii, respectively (101). Of 36 CSF isolates mainly recovered from patients with neuroborreliosis in Southern Germany, B. garinii, B. afzelii, and B. burgdorferi sensu stricto accounted for 58, 28, and 11%, respectively (33). These findings in European patients suggest an association between infection of B. garinii and the development of Lyme neuroborreliosis (11, 125, 186, 259, 277). This is not strictly the case, since obviously, B. burgdorferi sensu stricto is responsible for human neuroborreliosis in the United States. It may be noteworthy that the incidence of lymphocytic meningoradiculitis (Bannwarth syndrome) in LB patients is relatively lower in the United States (75, 89) than in European countries. This also suggests differences in pathogenicity between B. burgdorferi sensu stricto and B. garinii.
Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans and B. afzelii infection. ACA is a late cutaneous manifestation of LB characterized by chronic and long-lasting progressive red and bluish-red lesions, usually on the extensor surface of the extremities (235). It was described as early as 1883 (270) and is widely encountered throughout Europe (7, 45, 235); there have been few reports from the United States (58, 115, 155). Molecular studies of ACA isolates from patients in several European countries have provided evidence suggesting an exclusive association of ACA and B. afzelii infection (9, 11, 259, 273). However, a Danish isolate, DK7, derived from an ACA lesion was classified as B. burgdorferi sensu stricto by OspA serotyping (280) as well as by 16S rRNA and ospC gene sequence analysis (251). In a recent study, 22 B. burgdorferi sensu lato isolates from Slovenian patients with ACA were subjected to PFGE and species-specific PCR analysis (194). Results showed that infection was due to B. afzelii in 17 cases, to B. garinii in 4 cases, to B. burgdorferi sensu stricto in 1 case. One American isolate from a patient with ACA was also typed as B. burgdorferi sensu stricto (155). These studies indicate that B. afzelii is the predominant but not the exclusive etiologic agent of ACA.
Implication for Serological Diagnosis
The diagnosis of LB is primarily clinical, but serological tests can provide very useful supporting evidence, especially in patients with disseminated or chronic infection. The serological tests usually used to assess B. burgdorferi antibodies include enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), immunofluorescence assays, and Western blotting. ELISA and immunofluorescence assays are the most widely used but have low specificity (99, 256). Cross-reactive antibodies can produce a false-positive test in patients with other illnesses, e.g., other spirochetal infections, nonspirochetal bacterial endocarditis, Epstein-Barr virus infection, rheumatoid arthritis, and systemic lupus erythematosus (139, 140). In the United States, a two-step protocol for the evaluation of the B. burgdorferi antibodies in sera was recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (40). The performance of this protocol, as well as its simplified approach (255), may improve the specificity of serodiagnosis for LB (50, 110, 126), but the high percentage of seronegativity in 20 to 50% of patients, probably dependent on the stage of LB, remains a problem and limits the value of serological tests (2, 95, 99, 246). In addition, the antigenic heterogeneity of B. burgdorferi sensu lato may influence the sensitivity and specificity of serological tests for LB, especially on the European continent, where three pathogenic species of B. burgdorferi sensu lato and at least eight OspA serotypes are well documented (277, 280). Differences in the regional distributions of borrelial species may also affect preferential reactivities of sera from patients with LB (30, 169). Several studies have shown differences in the reactivity patterns in Western blot analysis, depending on the species, strain, or serotype used as the source of antigen (56, 94, 95, 156, 169). This issue should be readdressed, since molecular typing results based on hundreds of isolates have indicated that the genetic diversity of B. burgdorferi sensu lato is much greater than was previously thought, even in North America (134, 155, 197, 287). In a recent study, the influence of interspecies variability of B. burgdorferi sensu lato on the serodiagnosis of LB was evaluated by using immunoglobulin M and immunoglobulin G ELISA with antigens prepared from representative isolates of B. burgdorferi sensu stricto (isolates B31 and PKa2), B. garinii (PBi), and B. afzelii (PKo). Variations resulting from the use of different strains for antigenic preparations were noted in sera from 222 patients with clinically defined LB of all stages, 133 blood donors, and 458 forest workers (94). Such differences were also noted in ELISA or Western blotting by using whole-cell antigenic preparation (95), recombinant OspC (156), internal flagellin fragment (96), and P39 protein (211) from different species of B. burgdorferi sensu lato. Therefore, serological tests involving a combination of antigens derived from two or more strains (from different species in Europe) might be most informative as a response to the impact of strain heterogeneity, especially in Eurasia.
Implication for Vaccine Development
In the past years, different types of vaccines, including a whole-cell vaccine (112), live attenuated vaccine from an aflagellar mutant (215), recombinant OspA (61), OspC subunit vaccines (292), and OspA-based DNA vaccines (138, 228), have been developed (see also reference 283). Recombinant OspA vaccine has been highly successful in protecting laboratory animals against challenge by homologous strains of B. burgdorferi sensu lato (61). Recently, the efficacy of this recombinant OspA vaccine was evaluated in two large clinical trials involving more than 21,000 people from areas of the United States where LB is endemic (227, 243). The efficacy of these OspA vaccines was 76 to 92% in the second year after a booster dose (227, 243). Vaccine failure appears to be due to a low OspA antibody level. In December 1998, one of the OspA-based vaccine was approved for human use by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States (42). A recent study might raise questions about the safety of these OspA vaccines, since it seems theoretically possible that the OspA protein could provoke autoimmunity in susceptible individuals (88). The efficacy of this OspA-based vaccine in Europe may be considerably lower, given the substantial variations displayed in OspA proteins of B. burgdorferi sensu lato, as revealed by molecular typing analysis. Immunization with recombinant OspA derived from any one isolate may fail to protect against the heterogeneous population of organisms present in the natural focus. OspA immunization may protect mice from tick-borne infection with heterogeneous B. burgdorferi sensu lato from different geographic regions by blocking spirochetal transmission from the vector to the host (54, 63). However, it is not clear whether the specific antibody in persons who are immunized with an OspA vaccine derived from one isolate can also provide coverage against a wide range of strains. Passive and active immunization against OspC can serve in protective immunity. Recently, passive immunization with a high dose of anti-OspC immune sera appeared to be therapeutic for chronic LB in mice (292). However, the OspC-mediated protective immunity is probably strain specific (25). Thus, the general applicability of this approach may be limited by the well-documented heterogeneity of OspC among members of the species B. burgdorferi sensu lato (137, 279). One strategy to circumvent OspA and OspC heterogeneity is the use of vaccines made of a cocktail of various recombinant OspA and/or OspC gene products derived from different strains. In Europe, a multiple-subunit vaccine is expected to yield protective immunity against infections of different species of B. burgdorferi sensu lato. Gern et al. (82) reported that a polyvalent OspA vaccine prepared from three isolates of different species efficiently protected mice against infection due to either B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, B. garinii, or B. afzelii.
Other potential candidates for vaccines include decorin binding protein A (DbpA) (39, 93, 210), P35 (62), and P66 (29, 202). Further information on the distribution of various Borrelia species in their natural reservoir hosts and vectors and knowledge of the Borrelia antigenic compositions is needed to find representative immunogenic antigens for vaccine development.
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Since different Borrelia strains may intrinsically be associated with distinct pathogenic properties, application of molecular typing methods to the classification of B. burgdorferi sensu lato will provide the framework for a systematic approach to characterize differences in infectivity as well as in pathogenicity between strains. Among the typing methods available for B. burgdorferi sensu lato, OspA serotyping can be used to analyze the phenotypic characteristics. Both PFGE and RAPD fingerprinting analysis are powerful tools in elucidating the genetic relationship between closely related Borrelia isolates within a species. rDNA spacer RFLP analysis is simple and can be applied to uncultured specimens; it is therefore ideally suited for molecular epidemiological and population genetic studies of B. burgdorferi sensu lato. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequence may represent a potential method for inferring the taxa of B. burgdorferi sensu lato (68, 127). However, DNA-DNA reassociation data are generally required for designation of a new species because of the high degree of sequence similarity of the 16S rRNA genes between closely related Borrelia species (127, 267). In general, there is excellent concordance in the typing results obtained by different molecular approaches at the species level, with the exception of DNA sequence analysis of ospC.
Ten B. burgdorferi sensu lato species have been identified. The pathogenicity of three of these species is well documented in humans. Distribution of Borrelia species and clinical syndromes of LB are different in North America and Eurasia, possibly due to the different pathogenicities of Borrelia species. Current data indicate that B. burgdorferi sensu stricto infection is associated with articular disorders, B. garinii infection is associated with neuroborreliosis, and B. afzelii infection is associated with ACA. Since the recovery of Borrelia from clinical specimens of patients with LB by culture is low, in particular in patients with Lyme arthritis and carditis, assessment of the correlation between infecting species and clinical manifestations will require other approaches. Appropriate serological tests capable of differentiating the antibody response of patients infected with different Borrelia species may be helpful in this regard. In addition, sensitive molecular typing techniques which do not require large amounts of patient material or cultivation of the spirochete will play an increasingly important role in elucidation of the pathogenic potential of different B. burgdorferi genotypes. Ultimately, the development of suitable animal models for investigation of the tissue tropisms of different B. burgdorferi sensu lato species will provide more direct evidence for the correlation between Borrelia species and clinical symptoms of LB.
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We thank D. Postic and D. A. Mathiesen for providing further information on the B. burgdorferi sensu lato isolates included in Table 6 and E. Fikrig, G. Wormser, and J. M. Leong for comments on the manuscript.
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* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Phone: 31-20-566-4863. Fax: 31-20-697-9271. E-mail: g.wang{at}amc.uva.nl.
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