Afipia felis
{{Short description|Species of bacterium}}
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| genus = Afipia
| species = felis
| authority = Brenner et al. 1991
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Afipia felis is the type species of the Afipia bacterial genus.Brenner, Don J., Hollis, Dannie G., Moss, C. Wayne, English, Charles K., Hall, Geraldine S., Vincent, Judy, Radosevic, Jon, Birkness, Kristin A., Bibb, William F., Quinn, Frederick D., Swaminathan, B., Weaver, Robert E., Reeves, Michael W., O'Connor, Steven P., Hayes, Peggy S., Tenover, Fred C., Steigerwalt, Arnold G., Perkins, Bradley A., Daneshvar, Maryam I., Hill, Bertha C., Washington, John A., Woods, Toni C., Hunter, Susan B., Hadfield, Ted L., Ajello, Gloria W., Kaufmann, Arnold F., Wear, Douglas J. & Wenger, Jay D. (1991). Proposal of Afipia gen. nov., with Afipia felis sp. nov. (Formerly the Cat Scratch Disease Bacillus), Afipia clevelandensis sp. nov. (Formerly the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Strain), Afipia broomeae sp. nov., and Three Unnamed Genospecies. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 29(11), 2450–2460. It was formerly thought to cause cat-scratch disease. It is a Gram-negative, oxidase-positive, nonfermentative rod in the alpha-2 subgroup of the class Proteobacteria. It is motile by means of a single flagellum. It is noted for having the longest authority citation of any accepted species.Isaak, M. (2015). Wordplay: Long and Short Names. Retrieved from http://www.curioustaxonomy.net/word/longShort.html.
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Further reading
- {{cite journal |vauthors=Birkness KA, George VG, White EH, Stephens DS, Quinn FD |title=Intracellular growth of Afipia felis, a putative etiologic agent of cat scratch disease |journal=Infection and Immunity |volume=60 |issue=6 |pages=2281–7 |date=June 1992 |doi=10.1128/IAI.60.6.2281-2287.1992 |pmid=1587595 |pmc=257155 |url=}}
- {{cite journal |vauthors=Giladi M, Avidor B, Kletter Y, etal |title=Cat scratch disease: the rare role of Afipia felis |journal=Journal of Clinical Microbiology |volume=36 |issue=9 |pages=2499–502 |date=September 1998 |doi=10.1128/JCM.36.9.2499-2502.1998 |pmid=9705382 |pmc=105152 |url=}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Luhrmann|first1=A.|last2=Streker|first2=K.|last3=Schuttfort|first3=A.|last4=Daniels|first4=J. J. D.|last5=Haas|first5=A.|title=Afipia felis induces uptake by macrophages directly into a nonendocytic compartment|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=98|issue=13|year=2001|pages=7271–7276|issn=0027-8424|doi=10.1073/pnas.121190398|pmid=11404461|pmc=34658|bibcode=2001PNAS...98.7271L|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite book |author =Axel Schmidt |title=Bartonella and Afipia species emphasizing Bartonella henselae |publisher=Karger |location=Basel, New York |year=1998 |isbn=3-8055-6649-2 }}
External links
- [https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/afipia LPSN]
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- [http://bacdive.dsmz.de/index.php?search=1778&submit=Search Type strain of Afipia felis at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase]
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Category:Bacteria described in 1991
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