| Afipia felis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Hyphomicrobiales |
| Family: | Nitrobacteraceae |
| Genus: | Afipia |
| Species: | A. felis
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| Binomial name | |
| Afipia felis Brenner et al. 1991
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Afipia felis is the type species of the Afipia bacterial genus.[1] It was formerly thought to cause cat-scratch disease. It is a Gram-negative, oxidase-positive, nonfermentative rod in the alpha-2 subgroup of the class Proteobacteria. It is motile by means of a single flagellum. It is noted for having the longest authority citation of any accepted species.[2]
- ^ Brenner, Don J., Hollis, Dannie G., Moss, C. Wayne, English, Charles K., Hall, Geraldine S., Vincent, Judy, Radosevic, Jon, Birkness, Kristin A., Bibb, William F., Quinn, Frederick D., Swaminathan, B., Weaver, Robert E., Reeves, Michael W., O'Connor, Steven P., Hayes, Peggy S., Tenover, Fred C., Steigerwalt, Arnold G., Perkins, Bradley A., Daneshvar, Maryam I., Hill, Bertha C., Washington, John A., Woods, Toni C., Hunter, Susan B., Hadfield, Ted L., Ajello, Gloria W., Kaufmann, Arnold F., Wear, Douglas J. & Wenger, Jay D. (1991). Proposal of Afipia gen. nov., with Afipia felis sp. nov. (Formerly the Cat Scratch Disease Bacillus), Afipia clevelandensis sp. nov. (Formerly the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Strain), Afipia broomeae sp. nov., and Three Unnamed Genospecies. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 29(11), 2450–2460.
- ^ Isaak, M. (2015). Wordplay: Long and Short Names. Retrieved from http://www.curioustaxonomy.net/word/longShort.html.