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However, members of the vector-borne bacterial genera\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bartonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    causing various human as well as animal diseases have recently been isolated or detected from bats and their ectoparasites. In this study, we sampled 124 insectivorous microbats (Daubenton's bat,\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Myotis daubentonii<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) for peripheral blood in southwestern Finland in 2010. A\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bartonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    -specific PCR targeting\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">rpoB<\/jats:italic>\n                    (RNA polymerase \u03b2-subunit) was positive with blood samples from 46 bats (prevalence 37%). Scaled mass indexes of the infected and noninfected bats did not differ (\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009=\u20090.057). One\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">rpoB<\/jats:italic>\n                    sequence was identical with the\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">rpoB<\/jats:italic>\n                    sequence of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">B. naantaliensis<\/jats:italic>\n                    strain 2574\/1, previously isolated from bats in Finland. The rest of the sequences were highly similar to each other with nucleotide identity scores of 96% or higher. Nucleotide identity scores to the previously described type strain sequences of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bartonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    or other database entries were no higher than 87%. Sequence analyses of another gene,\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">gltA<\/jats:italic>\n                    (citrate synthase), gave no higher than 90% nucleotide identity scores. On the basis of the conventional 95% sequence similarity cutoff in bacterial species delineation, a novel species of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bartonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    was detected. We propose a species name\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Candidatus<\/jats:italic>\n                    B. hemsundetiensis. Phylogenetic analyses based on\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">rpoB<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">gltA<\/jats:italic>\n                    sequences indicate that\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Candidatus<\/jats:italic>\n                    B. hemsundetiensis clusters in a deep-branching position close to the ancestral species\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">B. tamiae<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">B. bacilliformis<\/jats:italic>\n                    . Our study reinforces the importance of bats as reservoirs of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bartonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    .\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1089\/vbz.2015.1783","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,10,26]],"date-time":"2015-10-26T11:37:45Z","timestamp":1445859465000},"page":"706-708","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":39,"title":["Molecular Detection of\n                    <i>Candidatus Bartonella hemsundetiensis<\/i>\n                    in Bats"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Thomas M.","family":"Lilley","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Turku","place":["Finland"]},{"name":"Bucknell University"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ville","family":"Veikkolainen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Turku","place":["Finland"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Arto T.","family":"Pulliainen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Turku","place":["Finland"]},{"name":"University of Helsinki","place":["Finland"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,11,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pntd.0003478"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1126\/science.1201366"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1128\/JCM.02827-14"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1099\/ijs.0.64483-0"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_6_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3201\/eid1603.081673"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_7_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1128\/JCM.00910-13"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_8_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1365-2435.2010.01751.x"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_9_1","article-title":"Ecological dynamics of emerging bat virus spillover","volume":"282","author":"Plowright RK","year":"2015","unstructured":"Plowright RK, , Eby P, , Hudson PJ, , Smith IL, et al. 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