- Bartonella rochalimae
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name = "Bartonella rochalimae" "Transmission electron microscopy".cite journal |author=Eremeeva ME, Gerns HL, Lydy SL, "et al" |title=Bacteremia, fever, and splenomegaly caused by a newly recognized bartonella species |journal=N. Engl. J. Med. |volume=356 |issue=23 |pages=2381–7 |year=2007 |month=Jun |pmid=17554119 |doi=10.1056/NEJMoa065987 |url=]
regnum = Bacteria
phylum =Proteobacteria
classis = Alpha Proteobacteria
ordo =Rhizobiales
familia =Bartonellaceae
genus = "Bartonella "
species = "B. rochalimae"
binomial = "Bartonella rochalimae"
binomial_authority = Eremeeva "et al.", 2007"Bartonella rochalimae" is a recently discovered strain of
Gram-negative bacteria in the "Bartonella " genus, isolated by researchers at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF),Massachusetts General Hospital , and theUnited States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .cite news
url=http://pub.ucsf.edu/newsservices/releases/200706061/|title=New bacterium discovered — related to cause of trench fever |accessdate=2007-06-07|date=2007-06-06|last=Ravven|first=Wallace|publisher=University of California, San Francisco ] The bacterium is a close relative of "Bartonella quintana ", the microbe which causedtrench fever in thousands of soldiers duringWorld War I .cite news
url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070607/sc_afp/ushealthbacteria|title=US scientists discover new, potentially deadly bacteria |accessdate=2007-06-07|date=2007-06-07|last=|first=|publisher=Agence France-Presse ] Named afterBrazil ian scientistHenrique da Rocha Lima ,cite news
url=http://www.medpagetoday.com/InfectiousDisease/GeneralInfectiousDisease/tb/5886|title=Mystery Fever Leads to New Pathogen From Peru |accessdate=2007-06-07|date=2007-06-07|last=Smith|first=Michael|publisher=MedPage Today] "B. rochalimae" is also closely related to "Bartonella henselae ", a bacterium identified in the mid-1990s during theAIDS epidemic inSan Francisco as the cause ofCat scratch fever , which still infects more than 24,000 people in the United States each year.cite news
url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/07/BAGUFQA9R716.DTL|title=Peru trekker's mystery bug is new to science|accessdate=2007-06-07|date=2007-06-07|last=Russell|first=Sabin|publisher="San Francisco Chronicle "]Scientists discovered the bacterium in a 43-year-old American woman who had traveled to
Peru for three weeks. She suffered from possibly life-threateninganemia , an enlarged spleen, a 102 degree Fahrenheit (39 degree Celsius) fever, and insomnia two weeks after returning to the United States,cite news|title=New, Possibly Deadly Bacteria Discovered |url=http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/6/8/101229.shtml?s=he|accessdate=2007-06-08
date=2007-06-08|last=Hubbard|first=Sylvia|publisher=NewsMax.com] symptoms akin to those oftyphoid fever andmalaria . The patient's sickness was first attributed to "Bartonella bacilliformis ", a known related species with a similar appearance under a microscope that is spread by sand flies and infects 10% of the human population in some regions of Peru withOroya fever . Antibiotic treatment based on this diagnosis rapidly cured her infection, but further investigation proved the bacteria were of a formerly unknown species. It is possible that other cases diagnosed asOroya fever result from this species.The findings were published in the "
New England Journal of Medicine " onJune 7 ,2007 . According to the senior author of the paper, Jane Koehler, professor ofinfectious disease s at UCSF, the new discovery is the sixth identified "Bartonella" species that can infect humans.References
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