Zoonotic Bartonella Species in fleas collected on gray foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 597-602

  Gabriel, Mourad W ^a,b   Henn, Jennifer ^b,c   Foley, Janet E ^b   Brown, Richard N ^a   Kasten, Rickie W ^b   Foley, Patrick ^d   Chomel, Bruno B ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Agency Public Health Division   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bartonella rochalimae; Bartonella vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii; California; Ctenocephalides felis; Gray fox; Pulex simulans; Urocyon cinereoargenteus

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA ROCHALIMAE; BARTONELLA VINSONII; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA EXTRACTION; EXPOSURE; FLEA; FOX; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULEX SIMULANS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; UROCYON CINEREOARGENTEUS;

ANIMALS; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; CALIFORNIA; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; FLEAS; FOXES; GENETICS, POPULATION; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; ZOONOSES;

BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA VINSONII SUBSP. BERKHOFFII; CANIDAE; CTENOCEPHALIDES FELIS; NEGIBACTERIA; PULEX; PULEX SIMULANS; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); UROCYON; UROCYON CINEREOARGENTEUS;

EID: 62749178447     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2008.0134     Document Type: Article

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