- Source: Afipia birgiae
Afipia birgiae is a species in the Afipia bacterial genus. 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 34632T (=CIP 106344T =CCUG 43108T).
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.
References
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