Afipia felis explained

Afipia felis is the type species of the Afipia bacterial genus.^[1] It was formerly thought to cause cat-scratch disease. It is a Gram-negative, oxidase-positive, nonfermentative rod in the alpha-2 subgroup of the class Proteobacteria. It is motile by means of a single flagellum. It is noted for having the longest authority citation of any accepted species.^[2]

Further reading

• Birkness KA, George VG, White EH, Stephens DS, Quinn FD . Intracellular growth of Afipia felis, a putative etiologic agent of cat scratch disease . . 60 . 6 . 2281–7 . June 1992 . 10.1128/IAI.60.6.2281-2287.1992 . 1587595 . 257155 .
• Giladi M, Avidor B, Kletter Y, etal . Cat scratch disease: the rare role of Afipia felis . . 36 . 9 . 2499–502 . September 1998 . 10.1128/JCM.36.9.2499-2502.1998 . 9705382 . 105152 .
• Luhrmann. A.. Streker. K.. Schuttfort. A.. Daniels. J. J. D.. Haas. A.. Afipia felis induces uptake by macrophages directly into a nonendocytic compartment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 98. 13. 2001. 7271–7276. 0027-8424. 10.1073/pnas.121190398. 11404461. 34658. 2001PNAS...98.7271L. free.
• Book: Axel Schmidt . Bartonella and Afipia species emphasizing Bartonella henselae . Karger . Basel, New York . 1998 . 3-8055-6649-2 .

External links

• LPSN
  • Type strain of Afipia felis at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and References

1. Brenner, Don J., Hollis, Dannie G., Moss, C. Wayne, English, Charles K., Hall, Geraldine S., Vincent, Judy, Radosevic, Jon, Birkness, Kristin A., Bibb, William F., Quinn, Frederick D., Swaminathan, B., Weaver, Robert E., Reeves, Michael W., O'Connor, Steven P., Hayes, Peggy S., Tenover, Fred C., Steigerwalt, Arnold G., Perkins, Bradley A., Daneshvar, Maryam I., Hill, Bertha C., Washington, John A., Woods, Toni C., Hunter, Susan B., Hadfield, Ted L., Ajello, Gloria W., Kaufmann, Arnold F., Wear, Douglas J. & Wenger, Jay D. (1991). Proposal of Afipia gen. nov., with Afipia felis sp. nov. (Formerly the Cat Scratch Disease Bacillus), Afipia clevelandensis sp. nov. (Formerly the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Strain), Afipia broomeae sp. nov., and Three Unnamed Genospecies. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 29(11), 2450–2460.
2. Isaak, M. (2015). Wordplay: Long and Short Names. Retrieved from http://www.curioustaxonomy.net/word/longShort.html.