ABSTRACT
A recently described clinical isolate, “
Candidatus
Bartonella ancashi,” was obtained from a blood sample of a patient presenting with verruga peruana in the Ancash region of Peru. This sample and a second isolate obtained 60 days later from the same patient were molecularly typed using multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and multispacer sequence typing (MST). The isolates were 100% indistinguishable from each other but phylogenetically distant from
Bartonella bacilliformis
and considerably divergent from other known
Bartonella
species, confirming their novelty.