Table 3. Characteristics of the 16 B. quintana isolates studied.

Isolate/DNA extract	Source of isolation, disease manifestation	Geographic origin	Isolation year	Reference
Fuller	Blood, trench fever	Yugoslavia	1945	[33]
SH-PERM	unknown, trench fever	Russia	World War II	[15]
Oklahoma	Blood, BA	Oklahoma city, USA	1990	[34]
JK-31	Tissue, BA	California, USA	Unknown	[27]
BQ2-D70	Blood, Rhesus macaque	California, USA	Unknown	[27]
Adelaide 1300/02	Blood, endocarditis	Adelaide, Australia	2002	[35]
Toulouse -copy Freiburg -CIP 103739	Blood, BA	Toulouse, France	1992	[36]
Jouhanneau	Blood, endocarditis	Paris, France	Unknown	this study
UR.BQ.MBA 263	Blood, BA	Marseille, France	2002	this study
UR.BQ.MNHP 295	Louse	Marseille, France	2003	this study
UR.BQ.TIE 326	Cardiac valve, endocarditis	Toulouse, France	2004	this study
UR.BQ.MTF 335	Blood, bacteraemia	Marseille, France	2005	this study
UR.BQ.MTF 357	Blood, bacteraemia	Marseille, France	2005	this study
UR.BQ.MNHP 374	Louse	Marseille, France	2006	this study
Munich	Blood, BA	Munich, Germany	1994	[37]
HROEH (DNA)	Cardiac valve, endocarditis	Rostock, Germany	2007	[23]

HROEH was a DNA extract from the cardiac valve tissue of a patient with culture-negative endocarditis by B. quintana.

¹BA, bacillary angiomatosis.