TABLE 2.

Homology of B. koehlerae sequence compared with the sequences of other Bartonella species known to cause human endocarditis

Gene	Size of PCR- sequenced fragment of B. koehlerae (bp)	Nucleotide positiona	% Sequence similarity of B. koehlerae tob:
			B. henselae	B. quintana	B. elizabethae	B. vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii
htrA	334	1247-1580	92	86	NAc	NA
gltA	333	806-1138	91	89	86	87
ribC	450	1166-1615	92	88	81	85

^aNucleotide positions correspond to the B. henselae htrA, gltA, and ribC sequences in GenBank (GenBank accession numbers L20127, L38987, and AJ13298, respectively).

^bPercent sequence similarity of B. koehlerae htrA, gltA, and ribC sequenced PCR fragments to the corresponding Bartonella sequences in GenBank, calculated by use of the BioEdit Sequence Alignment Editor software.

^cNA, not available.