Detection of multiple Bartonella species in digestive and reproductive tissues of fleas collected from sympatric mammals

ISME Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 955-958

  Brinkerhoff, R Jory ^a   Kabeya, Hidenori ^b   Inoue, Kai ^b   Bai, Ying ^c   Maruyama, Soichi ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Veterinary Medicine   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Host specialization; multiple niche polymorphism; pathogen transmission; Siphonaptera

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIUM; DETECTION METHOD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA; FLEA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEMOPARASITE; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MAMMAL; NICHE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLOSIS; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ECTOPARASITOSIS; FLEA; FOX; GENETICS; GENITAL SYSTEM; GENOTYPE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MAMMAL; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PEROMYSCUS; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT DISEASE; SCIURIDAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FLEAS; FOXES; GENITALIA; GENOTYPE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MAMMALS; PEROMYSCUS; RODENT DISEASES; SCIURIDAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SIPHONAPTERA;

ARTHROPODA; BARTONELLA; MAMMALIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 77954089937     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2010.22     Document Type: Article

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