What is the true clinical relevance of and other emerging members?

and are emerging related bacteria. Similar to the pathogenic organisms and these emerging bacteria are implicated in human genital infections and respiratory diseases. We used a screening strategy based on a newly developed -specific quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) and a pan- qPCR. We could not detect in 458 respiratory, genitourinary, cardiac and hepatic samples tested. One urethral swab was positive for We observed a low prevalence of in respiratory samples (1/200, 0.5%), which suggests that is an uncommon respiratory pathogen. Furthermore, we screened 414 human serum samples from Switzerland, England and Israel and observed a low prevalence (<1%) of exposure to Conversely, humans were commonly exposed to with seroprevalences ranging from 8.6% to 32.5%. is not a clinically relevant pathogen, but further research investigating the role of is needed.