TABLE 1.

Identification of Bartonella species by PCR-RFLP analysis of a 16S rDNA fragment

Bartonella sp.	DdeI			MseI			PCR-RFLP composite pattern
	Lengths of fragmentsa (bp)		No. of restriction sites	Length of fragments (bp)		No. of restriction sites
	O	P		O	P
B. henselae	190, 115	187, 109	1	214, 81	217, 79	1	I
B. vinsonii	158, 114	159, 109, 28	2	218, 82	217, 79	2	II
B. elizabethae	154, 110	159, 109, 28	2	166, 79, 52	173, 79, 44	2	III
B. quintana	180, 106	187, 109	1	168, 75, 47	173, 79, 44	2	IV

^aO, observed; P, predicted (GenBank sequences).