Bartonella acomydis
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| Bartonella acomydis | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| 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]
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]