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Different species of rodents may constitute the main hosts of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bartonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    , including several zoonotic species of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bartonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    . The aim of this study was to identify and compare\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bartonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    species and genotypes isolated from rodent hosts from the South Sinai, Egypt. Prevalence of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bartonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    infection was assessed in rodents (837\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Acomys dimidiatus<\/jats:italic>\n                    , 73\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Acomys russatus<\/jats:italic>\n                    , 111\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Dipodillus dasyurus<\/jats:italic>\n                    , and 65\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Sekeetamys calurus)<\/jats:italic>\n                    trapped in 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012 in four dry montane wadis around St. Katherine town in the Sinai Mountains. Total DNA was extracted from blood samples, and PCR amplification and sequencing of the\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bartonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    -specific 860-bp gene fragment of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">rpoB<\/jats:italic>\n                    and the 810-bp gene fragment of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">gltA<\/jats:italic>\n                    were used for molecular and phylogenetic analyses. The overall prevalence of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bartonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    in rodents was 7.2%. Prevalence differed between host species, being 30.6%, 10.8%, 9.6%, and 3.6% in\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">D. dasyurus<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">S. calurus<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">A. russatus<\/jats:italic>\n                    , and\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">A. dimidiatus<\/jats:italic>\n                    , respectively. The phylogenetic analyses of six samples of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bartonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    (five from\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">D. dasyurus<\/jats:italic>\n                    and one from\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">S. calurus<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) based on a fragment of the\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">rpoB<\/jats:italic>\n                    gene, revealed the existence of two distinct genetic groups (with 95\u201396% reciprocal sequence identity), clustering with several unidentified isolates obtained earlier from the same rodent species, and distant from species that have already been described (90\u201392% of sequence identity to the closest match from the GenBank reference database). Thus, molecular and phylogenetic analyses led to the description of two species:\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Candidatus<\/jats:italic>\n                    Bartonella fadhilae n. sp. and\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Candidatus<\/jats:italic>\n                    Bartonella sanaae n. sp. The identification of their vectors and the medical significance of these species need further investigation.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1089\/vbz.2016.2093","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,5,25]],"date-time":"2017-05-25T16:05:28Z","timestamp":1495728328000},"page":"483-494","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["Description of\n                    <i>Candidatus<\/i>\n                    Bartonella fadhilae n. sp. and\n                    <i>Candidatus<\/i>\n                    Bartonella sanaae n. sp. 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