Bartonella quintana, originally known as Rochalimaea quintana, and "Rickettsia quintana", is a bacterium transmitted by the human body louse that causes ...BartonellaquintanaFromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopediaJumptonavigationJumptosearchSpeciesofbacteriumBartonellaquintanaScientificclassificationDomain:BacteriaPhylum:ProteobacteriaClass:AlphaproteobacteriaOrder:HyphomicrobialesFamily:BartonellaceaeGenus:BartonellaSpecies:B. quintanaBinomialnameBartonellaquintana(Schmincke1917)Brenneretal.1993Synonyms[1]Rochalimaeaquintana(Schmincke1917)Krieg1961WolhyniaqintanaeZhdanovandKorenblit1950RickettsiawolhynicaJungmannandKuczynski1918RickettsiaweigliMosing1936RickettsiaquintanaSchmincke1917RickettsiapediculiMunkanddaRocha-Lima1917Burnetia(Rocha-limae)wolhynicaMacchiavello1947Bartonellaquintana,originallyknownasRochalimaeaquintana,[2]and"Rickettsiaquintana",[3]isabacteriumtransmittedbythehumanbodylousethatcausestrenchfever.[4]Thisbacterialspeciescausedoutbreaksoftrenchfeveraffecting1millionsoldiersinEuropeduringWorldWarI.[5]Contents1Genome2Backgroundandcharacteristics3Pathophysiology4Ecologyandepidemiology5Clinicalmanifestations6Diagnosisandtreatment7References8ExternallinksGenome[edit]B.quintanahadanestimatedgenomesizeof1,700to2,174kb.,[6]butthefirstgenomesequence(ofstrainRM-11)containsasinglecircularchromosomeof1,587,646basepairs.[7]Backgroundandcharacteristics[edit]B.quintanaisafastidious,aerobic,Gram-negative(-),polerod-shaped(bacillus)bacterium.Theinfectioncausedbythismicroorganism,trenchfever,wasfirstdocumentedinsoldiersduringWorldWarI,buthasnowbeenseenEurope,Asia,andNorthAfrica.ItsprimaryvectorisknowntobePediculushumanusvarietycorporis,alsoknownasthehumanbodylouse.[8]ItwasfirstknowntobeisolatedinaxenicculturebyJ.W.Vinsonin1960,fromapatientinMexicoCity.HethenfollowedKoch'spostulates,infectingvolunteerswiththebacterium,showingconsistentsymptomsandclinicalmanifestationsoftrenchfever.Themediumbestforgrowingthisbacteriumisblood-enrichedinanatmospherecontaining5%carbondioxide.