Figure 1. Phylogenetic tree of Candidatus B. merieuxii and other Bartonella species.

The phylogenetic tree was based on concatenated sequences of two housekeeping genes (gltA and rpoB) and the 16S-23S rRNA intergenic spacer region and was constructed from 941 base-pair sequences, inferred using the Neighbor-Joining method, and 1000 replicates in the bootstrap test. Scale bar indicates 10 substitutions per nucleotide position.