| Afipia birgiae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Hyphomicrobiales |
| Family: | Nitrobacteraceae |
| Genus: | Afipia |
| Species: | A. birgiae
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| Binomial name | |
| Afipia birgiae La Scola et al. 2002
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Afipia birgiae is a species in the Afipia bacterial genus.[1] It is a gram-negative, oxidase-positive rod in the alpha-2 subgroup of the class Proteobacteria. It is motile by means of a single flagellum. Its type strain is 34632T (=CIP 106344T =CCUG 43108T).
Afipia birgiae is a fastidious bacteria isolated from a hospital water supply in co-culture with amoebae. It is hypothesized that this group of bacteria are a potential cause of nosocomial infections.[2]
- ^ La Scola, B. (2002). "Description of Afipia birgiae sp. nov. and Afipia massiliensis sp. nov. and recognition of Afipia felis genospecies A". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 52 (5): 1773–1782. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02149-0. ISSN 1466-5026.
- ^ La Scola, Bernard; Mallet, Marie-Noëlle; Grimont, Patrick A. D.; Raoult, Didier (September 2002). "Description of Afipia birgiae sp. nov. and Afipia massiliensis sp. nov. and recognition of Afipia felis genospecies A". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 52 (Pt 5): 1773–1782. doi:10.1099/00207713-52-5-1773. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 12361286.