Bartonella acomydis

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Bartonella acomydis
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Hyphomicrobiales
Family: Bartonellaceae
Genus: Bartonella
Species:
B. acomydis
Binomial name
Bartonella acomydis
Sato et al. 2013 [1]
Type strain
JCM 17706, KCTC 23907, KS2-1 [2]

Bartonella acomydis is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium of the genus Bartonella . The species was first isolated from the blood of a wild-caught golden spiny mouse ( Acomys russatus ) that had been imported to Japan as an exotic pet from Egypt. [3]

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Etymology

The species epithet acomydis derives from Acomys , the genus of spiny mice from which the type strain was isolated. [3]

Description

Like other members of the genus Bartonella, B. acomydis is a fastidious facultative intracellular bacterium that infects erythrocytes. [3] [4] The DNA G+C content of the type strain is 37.2 mol%. [3]

Taxonomy

Bartonella acomydis was formally described in 2013 by Sato and colleagues at Nihon University in Japan, alongside three other novel Bartonella species: B. jaculi , B. callosciuri , and B. pachyuromydis , all isolated from exotic rodents imported to Japan as pets. [3] Phylogenetic analysis based on concatenated sequences of five loci (16S rRNA, ftsZ, gltA, rpoB genes and the ITS region) demonstrated that B. acomydis forms a distinct clade that can be differentiated from other known Bartonella species. [3]

Ecology

The natural host of B. acomydis is the golden spiny mouse (Acomys russatus), a rodent native to arid regions of the Middle East and Northeast Africa, including Egypt, Sinai, Israel, Jordan, and the Arabian Peninsula. [3] Subsequent studies have detected B. acomydis in wild rodent populations in various countries within the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region. [5]

Bartonella species are typically transmitted between rodent hosts by blood-feeding arthropod vectors, particularly fleas. [4] Rodents serve as natural reservoirs for many Bartonella species, maintaining persistent bacteremia that can last for months. [4]

References

  1. ↑ lpsn.dsmz.de
  2. ↑ "Straininfo of Bartonella acomydis". Archived from the original on 2014-05-22. Retrieved 2014-05-22.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Sato, S.; Kabeya, H.; Fujinaga, Y.; Inoue, K.; Une, Y.; Yoshikawa, Y.; Maruyama, S. (2013). "Bartonella jaculi sp. nov., Bartonella callosciuri sp. nov., Bartonella pachyuromydis sp. nov. and Bartonella acomydis sp. nov., isolated from wild Rodentia". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 63 (Pt 5): 1734–1740. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.041939-0. PMID   22941296.
  4. 1 2 3 Gutiérrez, R.; Krasnov, B.; Morick, D.; Gottlieb, Y.; Khokhlova, I. S.; Harrus, S. (2015). "Bartonella Infection in Rodents and Their Flea Ectoparasites: An Overview". Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 15 (1): 27–39. doi:10.1089/vbz.2014.1606. PMC   4307031 . PMID   25629778.
  5. ↑ Shirani, M.; Parvizi, P. (2024). "Geographical distribution of Bartonella spp in the countries of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (WHO-EMRO)". Journal of Infection and Public Health. 17 (4): 657–675. doi:10.1016/j.jiph.2024.02.003. PMID   38417297.
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