1. Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, National Reference Center for Borrelia, Oberschleissheim, Germany
2. Members of the ESCMID Study Group for Lyme Borreliosis (ESGBOR, www.escmid.org/esgbor)
3. Programa de Genómica Evolutiva, Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónomade México, CP 62210, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
4. School of Health, Sport and Bioscience, University of East London, London E15 4LZ, UK
5. Department of Clinical Microbiology, Slagelse Hospital, Denmark
6. Norwegian Advisory Unit for Tick Borne Diseases, Sørlandet Hospital, Norway
7. Department of Animal Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, 50013 Zaragoza, Spain
8. Australian National Insect Collection CSIRO, Black Mountain, Acton, ACT, 2901, Australia
9. Zentralinstitut für Labormedizin, Mikrobiologie & Krankenhaushygiene, Krankenhaus Nordwest, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
10. Abteilung Rheumatologie und Klinische Immunologie, Immanuel Krankenhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany
11. Microbiologiste FAMH, Laboratoire Borrelia (CNRT/ NRZK Spiez), La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
12. Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV), Division of Inflammation and Infection (II), Linköping University, Sweden
13. Vector & Waterborne Pathogens Research Group, College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, Murdoch University, Murdoch, 6150, Australia
14. Institute of Vertebrate Biology, v.v.i., Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, CZ-691 42 Valtice, Czech Republic
15. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA
16. Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics and Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 40502, USA
17. Division of Infectious Diseases, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA