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SUBMITTER: Mangombi JB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7689162 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
New microbes and new infections 20201027
We describe a new strain named Bartonella gabonensis sp. nov. strain 669<sup>T</sup> (CSURB1083). The entire genome of this strain is described here. It was isolated from a savannah rodent, a brush-furred rat (Lophuromys sp.), trapped the city of Franceville in Gabon, in Central Africa. B. gabonensis is an aerobic, rod-shaped and Gram-negative bacterium. On the basis of the organism's features, and following a taxonogenomic approach, we propose the creation of the species Bartonella gabonensis s ...[more]