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Rodents have been reported as reservoirs of more than 30\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bartonella<\/jats:italic>\n                      species, seven of which cause zoonotic infections.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Materials and Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      In the present study, the isolation of\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bartonella<\/jats:italic>\n                      sp. was attempted from 150 spleen samples from 13 rodent species (mostly\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Apodemus<\/jats:italic>\n                      species) from three geographically different regions in Turkey.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bartonella<\/jats:italic>\n                      sp. was successfully isolated from 65 of these 150 samples (43%). The prevalences of\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bartonella<\/jats:italic>\n                      sp. in tested rodents in the regions of Giresun, Yozgat, and Burdur were 68%, 44%, and 16%, respectively. Using polymerase chain reaction\/sequence analysis of the citrate synthase-coding gene (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">gltA<\/jats:italic>\n                      ), Bartonellaisolates were classified seven species including\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">B. taylorii<\/jats:italic>\n                      ,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">B. grahamii<\/jats:italic>\n                      ,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">B. birtlesii<\/jats:italic>\n                      ,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">B. mastomydis<\/jats:italic>\n                      , and three putatively new\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bartonella<\/jats:italic>\n                      species. We performed further identification techniques for one of the three\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bartonella<\/jats:italic>\n                      species that were different from the validated\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bartonella<\/jats:italic>\n                      species according to the\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">gltA<\/jats:italic>\n                      sequence analysis.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Here, we report the genomic and phenotypic characterization of\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bartonella<\/jats:italic>\n                      sp. strain G70 that was isolated from the splenic tissue of an\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Apodemus uralensis<\/jats:italic>\n                      (Pallas 1881), the Ural field mouse, captured in the Giresun region of northeastern Turkey.\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bartonella<\/jats:italic>\n                      sp. strainG70 (RSKK 22001) was characterized by whole genome and partial gene (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">gltA<\/jats:italic>\n                      , 16S ribosomal RNA) sequencing and comparison, scanning electron microscopy, biochemical tests, and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. This novel\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bartonella<\/jats:italic>\n                      is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium and has neither flagella nor pili. The genome from strain G70 was 1,606,969-bp-long with a G + C content of 35.7%.\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bartonella rochalimae<\/jats:italic>\n                      was found to be the closest phylogenetic relative of strain G70 (OrthoANI = 90.5%, digital DNA\u2013DNA hybridization = 41.4%). 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