Mediannikov, Oleg, Karkouri, Khalid, Diatta, Georges, Robert, Catherine, Fournier, Pierre-Edouard, and Raoult, Didier
Bartonella senegalensis sp. nov. strain OS02 is the type strain of B. senegalensis sp. nov., a new species within the genus Bartonella. This strain, whose genome is described here, was isolated in Senegal from the soft tick Ornithodoros sonrai, the vector of relapsing fever. B. senegalensis is an aerobic, rod-shaped, Gram-negative bacterium. Here we describe the features of this organism, together with the complete genome sequence and its annotation. The 1,966,996 bp-long genome contains 1,710 protein-coding and 46 RNA genes, including 6 rRNA genes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]