Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.9009

Name

Rochalimaea (Macchiavello 1947) Krieg 1961 emend. Weiss and Moulder 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Bartonellaceae Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Brenner et al. 1993

Members

species	Rochalimaea quintana (Schmincke 1917) Krieg 1961 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Rochalimaea elizabethae Daly et al. 1993
species	Rochalimaea henselae Regnery et al. 1992
species	Rochalimaea vinsonii Weiss and Dasch 1982

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Hyphomicrobiales Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Bartonellaceae Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Brenner et al. 1993
genus Rochalimaea (Macchiavello 1947) Krieg 1961 emend. Weiss and Moulder 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the genus Rochalimaea (Macchiavello 1947) Krieg 1961 emend. Weiss and Moulder 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.9009.

Source File

10.1601/tx.9009.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 6, 2010.

References

Daly JS, Worthington MG, Brenner DJ, Moss CW, Hollis DG, Weyant RS, Steigerwalt AG, Weaver RE, Daneshvar MI, O'Connor SP. Rochalimaea elizabethae sp. nov. isolated from a patient with endocarditis. J Clin Microbiol 1993; 31:872-881. [PubMed].
Weiss E, Dasch GA. Differiential characteristics of strain of Rochalimaea: Rochalimaea vinsonii sp. nov., the canadian vole agent. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1982; 32:305-314. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-32-3-305.
Brenner DJ, O'Connor SP, Winkler HH, Steigerwalt AG. Proposals to unify the genera Bartonella and Rochalimaea, with descriptions of Bartonella quintana comb. nov., Bartonella vinsonii comb. nov., Bartonella henselae comb. nov., and Bartonella elizabethae comb. nov., and to remove the family Bartonellaceae from the order Rickettsiales. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:777-786. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-43-4-777 [PubMed].
Krieg A. Grundlagen der Insektenpathologie. Viren-, Rickettsien- und Bakterien- Infektionen., First Edition, Dr. Dietrich Steinkopff, Verlag, Darmstadt, 1961, p. 1-304.
Regnery RL, Anderson BE, Clarridge JE, Rodriguez-Barradas MC, Jones DC, Carr JH. Characterization of a novel Rochalimaea species, R. henselae sp. nov., isolated from blood of a febrile, human immunodeficiency virus-positive patient. J Clin Microbiol 1992; 30:265-274. [PubMed].