Exotic small mammals as potential reservoirs of zoonotic Bartonella spp.

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 526-532

  Inoue, Kai ^a   Maruyama, Soichi ^a   Kabeya, Hidenori ^a   Hagiya, Keiko ^a   Izumi, Yasuhito ^a   Une, Yumi ^b   Yoshikawa, Yasuhiro ^c  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLOSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CENTRIFUGATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOCARDITIS; EXOTIC SPECIES; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST; NEURORETINITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RETINITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMALL MAMMAL; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MAMMALS; PHYLOGENY; ZOONOSES;

EID: 65349100085     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1504.081223     Document Type: Article

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