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Volume 32, Number 10—October 2026

Research

Persistent Bartonella quintana Infection in Macaques at Primate Research Institute, Japan

Yoshiki Nomura, Yuka Fukudome, Akihiro Homma, Tadashi Sankai, Munehiro Okamoto, Hidenori Kabeya, Soichi Maruyama, and Shingo SatoComments to Author 
Author affiliation: Nihon University, Fujisawa, Japan (Y. Nomura, Y. Fukudome, A. Homma, H. Kabeya, S. Maruyama, S. Sato); Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan (T. Sankai); Kyoto University Primate Research Institute, Inuyama, Japan (M. Okamoto)

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Table 3

Whole-genome sequencing data of 3 Bartonella quintana strains from wild-caught Japanese macaques kept in primate research institute in study of persistent B. quintana infection in macaques at primate research institute, Japan*

Strain
No. short reads
Total bases calculated from all reads
No. contigs
Coverage†
Estimated genome size, mbp
GC, %
BUSCO score, %
TB1-1 700,410 166,315,725 43 106-fold 1.6 38.8 97.8
MN51-1 303,794 73,058,573 52 46-fold 1.6 38.8 97.9
MN57-1 1,065,204 258,705,960 47 165-fold 1.6 38.8 97.9

*BUSCO, benchmarking universal single-copy orthologs; GC, guanine–cytosine contents. †Indicates increase over average coverage.

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