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SUBMITTER: Foucault C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC540158 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Foucault C C La Scola B B Lindroos H H Andersson S G E SG Raoult D D
Journal of clinical microbiology 20050101 1
Bartonella quintana is a worldwide fastidious bacterium of the Alphaproteobacteria responsible for bacillary angiomatosis, trench fever, chronic lymphadenopathy, and culture-negative endocarditis. The recent genome sequencing of a B. quintana isolate allowed us to propose a genome-wide sequence-based typing method. To ensure sequence discrimination based on highly polymorphic areas, we amplified and sequenced 34 spacers in a large collection of B. quintana isolates. Six of these exhibited polymo ...[more]