title: Molecular typing of "Candidatus Bartonella ancashi," a new human pathogen causing verruga peruana.
abstract: A recently described clinical isolate, "Candidatus Bartonella ancashi," was obtained from a blood sample of a patient presenting with verruga peruana in the Ancash region of Peru. This sample and a second isolate obtained 60 days later from the same patient were molecularly typed using multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and multispacer sequence typing (MST). The isolates were 100% indistinguishable from each other but phylogenetically distant from Bartonella bacilliformis and considerably divergent from other known Bartonella species, confirming their novelty.
authors.affiliation: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Kristin E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Mullins
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hang
authors.forename: Ju
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Mariana
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Leguia
authors.forename: Matthew R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Kasper
authors.forename: Ciro
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Maguiña
authors.forename: Richard G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Jarman
authors.forename: David L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Blazes
authors.forename: Allen L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Richards
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001473:Bartonella / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D001474:Bartonella Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D045503:Bartonella bacilliformis; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D058889:Molecular Typing / Q000379:methods*; D010568:Peru; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017385:Sequence Homology
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial