Bartonella massiliensis sp. nov., a new bacterial species isolated from an Ornithodoros sonrai tick from Senegal

H Medkour; C I Lo; H Anani; F Fenollar; O Mediannikov

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100596

Bartonella massiliensis sp. nov., a new bacterial species isolated from an Ornithodoros sonrai tick from Senegal

New Microbes New Infect. 2019 Aug 27:32:100596. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100596. eCollection 2019 Nov.

Authors

H Medkour^{1

2}, C I Lo^{2

3}, H Anani^{2

3}, F Fenollar^{2

3}, O Mediannikov^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Aix-Marseille Université, IRD, AP-HM, MEPHI, Marseille, France.
² IHU-Méditerranée InfectionMarseille, France.
³ Aix-Marseille Université, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France.

Abstract

Bartonella massiliensis sp. nov., strain OS09^T (= CSURB624^T = DSM 23169), is the type strain of Bartonella massiliensis sp. nov., a new species within the genus Bartonella. It was isolated from a soft tick, Ornithodoros sonrai, 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 Bartonella massiliensis sp. nov.

Keywords: Bartonella massiliensissp. nov.; Ornithodoros sonrai; genome; senegal; soft tick.

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Case Reports