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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 Sato
Table 4
Whole-genome comparisons based on ANI and dDDH values in study of persistent Bartonella quintana infection in macaques at primate research institute, Japan*
| Strain | Host | % ANI value/dDDH value |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| TB1-1 | MN51-1 | MN57-1 | ||
| MF1-1 | Japanese macaque | 99.8/99.0 | 99.8/98.9 | 99.8/98.9 |
| RM-11 | Rhesus macaque | 99.4/95.4 | 99.4/95.3 | 99.4/95.3 |
| Toulouse | Human | 98.3/85.2 | 98.3/85.3 | 98.3/85.3 |
*ANI, pairwise average nucleotide identity; dDDH, digital DNA-DNA hybridization.
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