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.
BA, bacillary angiomatosis.