bartonella gabonensis bartonella gabonensis bartonella gabonensis is a bacterium from the genus bartonella which has been isolated from the mouse lophuromys sp. which was living in franceville. bartonella gabonensis scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: hyphomicrobiales family: bartonellaceae genus: bartonella species: b. gabonensis binomial name bartonella gabonensismangombi et al. 2020 type strain 669 genome scientists did whole genome sequence on the bacteria. they sequenced 100% genome of this new species. genome of bartonella gabonensis contained 1,971,183 bp with 47% g+c content. they also sequenced 17s rna and other important genes. all genetic data of this bacteria was discovered by scientists. discovery the team who discovered it consisted of j. b. mangombi, n. n'dilimabaka, h. medkour, l. banga, m. l. tall, m. ben khedher, j. terras, s. abdi, m. bourgarel, e. leroy, f. fenollar and o. mediannikov.