Rejection of the name Borreliella and all proposed species comb. nov. placed therein
Gabriele Margos, Santiago Castillo‐Ramírez, Sally J. Cutler, Ram Benny Dessau, Randi Eikeland, Agustín Estrada‐Peña, Alexander W. Gofton, Lucía Graña-Miraglia, Klaus‐Peter Hunfeld, Andreas Krause, Reto Lienhard, Per‐Eric Lindgren, Charlotte L. Oskam, Ivo Rudolf, Ira Schwartz, Andreas Sing, Brian Stevenson, Gary P. Wormser, Volker Fingerle
Abstract
and all new combinations therein is being requested on grounds of risk to human health and patient safety (Principle 1, subprinciple 2 and Rule 56a) and violation to aim for stability of names, to avoid useless creation of names (Principle 1, subprinciple 1 and 3) and that names should not be changed without sufficient reason (Principle 9 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes).
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