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Access the NCBI Taxonomy browser at http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/tax.html. Search the site to find the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. Why is it classified with the same organisms that cause syphilis and leptospirosis? Which two of the three organisms are more closely related? How do you know?

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