Afipia birgiae

Afipia birgiae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Hyphomicrobiales
Family:	Nitrobacteraceae
Genus:	Afipia
Species:	A. birgiae
Binomial name
Afipia birgiae La Scola et al. 2002

Afipia birgiae is a species in the Afipia bacterial genus.[1] It is a gram-negative, oxidase-positive rod in the alpha-2 subgroup of the class Proteobacteria. It is motile by means of a single flagellum. Its type strain is 34632^T (=CIP 106344^T =CCUG 43108^T).

Afipia birgiae is a fastidious bacteria isolated from a hospital water supply in co-culture with amoebae. It is hypothesized that this group of bacteria are a potential cause of nosocomial infections.[2]

References

1. La Scola, B. (2002). "Description of Afipia birgiae sp. nov. and Afipia massiliensis sp. nov. and recognition of Afipia felis genospecies A". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 52 (5): 1773–1782. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02149-0. ISSN 1466-5026.
2. La Scola, Bernard; Mallet, Marie-Noëlle; Grimont, Patrick A. D.; Raoult, Didier (September 2002). "Description of Afipia birgiae sp. nov. and Afipia massiliensis sp. nov. and recognition of Afipia felis genospecies A". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 52 (Pt 5): 1773–1782. doi:10.1099/00207713-52-5-1773. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 12361286.

Further reading

• Axel Schmidt (1998). Bartonella and Afipia species emphasizing Bartonella henselae. Basel, New York: Karger. ISBN 3-8055-6649-2.
• Pagnier I, Croce O, Robert C, Raoult D, La Scola B (December 2012). "Genome sequence of Afipia birgiae, a rare bacterium associated with Amoebae". Journal of Bacteriology. 194 (24): 7018. doi:10.1128/JB.01918-12. PMC 3510551. PMID 23209256.

External links

• LPSN
• "Afipia birgiae". The Encyclopedia of Life.
• Type strain of Afipia birgiae at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase