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SUBMITTER: Medkour H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6839013 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
New microbes and new infections 20190827
<i>Bartonella massiliensis</i> sp. nov., strain OS09<sup>T</sup> (= CSURB624<sup>T</sup> = DSM 23169), is the type strain of <i>Bartonella massiliensis</i> sp. nov., a new species within the genus <i>Bartonella.</i> It was isolated from a soft tick, <i>Ornithodoros sonrai,</i> vector of recurrent fever collected from Senegalese domestic rodent burrows. This strain is an aerobic, rod-shaped and Gram-negative bacterium. On the basis of taxonogenomic approach, we propose the creation of <i>Bartonel ...[more]