1. National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Veterinärstr. 2, 85764 Oberschleißheim, Germany
2. European Programme for Public Health Microbiology Training, European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden
3. School of Health Sport and Bioscience, University of East London, Water Lane, London, UK
4. Department of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
5. Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA
6. SmartGene Services SARL, Innovation Park, Building C, EPFL-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
7. Yale School of Public Health, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
8. Emeritus Professor of Animal Parasitology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
9. Members of the Steering Committee of the ESCMID Study Group for Borrelia (ESGBOR)
10. Zentralinstitut für Labormedizin, Mikrobiologie and Krankenhaushygiene, Krankenhaus Nordwest, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Steinbacher Hohl 2-26, D-60488 Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany
11. Laboratoire de Bactériologie, CNR des Borrelia, Plateau Technique de Microbiologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg et Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg, 1 rue Koeberlé, Strasbourg 67000, France
12. tick-radar GmbH, Haderslebener Str. 9, Berlin 12163, Germany
13. Molecular Genetics Lab (www.dnk-ural.ru) Biology Department, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N.Yeltsin, Lenin Avenue, Yekaterinburg 620000, Russia
14. Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital Frankfurt, Paul-Ehrlich-Str, Frankfurt/Main 40, 60596, Germany
15. Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California Berkeley, 130 Mulford Hall, Berkeley CA 94720, California, USA
16. Borrelia Laboratory for the National Reference Centre of Tick Diseases (CNRT/ NRZK), ADMed Microbiology, La Chaux-de-Fonds 2303, Switzerland
17. Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
18. Director, Public Health Risk Sciences Division, National Microbiology Laboratory, @ Saint-Hyacinthe and Guelph, Public Health Agency of Canada, Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada
19. Clinical and Experimental Infectious Medicine Section, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden
20. Klinikum Dachau, Abt. Neurology u. Schlafmedizinisches Zentrum, Krankenhausstr. 15, 8521 Dachau, Germany
21. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, New York Medical College, Basic Sciences Building, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
22. Chair Bacteriology and Mykology, Department of Veterinary Science, Veterinary Faculty, LMU Munich, Veterinärstraße, München 13, 80539, Gemany
23. Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
24. Université de Neuchâtel, Institut de Biologie, Laboratoire d'Ecologie et Evolution des Parasites, Rue Emile-Argand 11, CH-2000, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
25. Fondazione Edmund Mach, Research and Innovation Centre, Via Mach, 1, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy
26. Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, MS421 Chandler Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky, 40536-0298, USA