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Candidatus Bartonella merieuxii, a Potential New Zoonotic Bartonella Species in Canids from Iraq 1 2 1 1 3 Bruno B. Chomel *, Audrey C. McMillan-Cole , Rickie W. Kasten , Matthew J. Stuckey , Shingo Sato , 3 4 5 Soichi Maruyama , Pedro P. V. P. Diniz , Edward B. Breitschwerdt 1 Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, 2 Public Health Command Region-Pacific, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, 3 Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health, Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Fujisawa, Japan, 4 College of Veterinary Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, California, United States of America, 5 Intracellular Pathogens Research Laboratory, Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America Abstract Bartonellae are emerging vector-borne pathogens infecting erythrocytes and endothelial cells of various domestic and wild mammals. Blood samples were collected from domestic and wild canids in Iraq under the United States Army zoonotic disease surveillance program. Serology was performed using an indirect immunofluorescent antibody test for B. henselae, B. clarridgeiae, B. vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii and B. bovis. Overall seroprevalence was 47.4% in dogs (n = 97), 40.4% in jackals (n = 57) and 12.8% in red foxes (n = 39). Bartonella species DNA was amplified from whole blood and representative strains