Candidatus Bartonella antechini: A novel Bartonella species detected in fleas and ticks from the yellow-footed antechinus (Antechinus flavipes), an Australian marsupial

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 517-521

  Kaewmongkol, Gunn ^a,b   Kaewmongkol, Sarawan ^b,c   Owen, Helen ^a   Fleming, Patricia A ^a   Adams, Peter J ^a   Ryan, Una ^a   Irwin, Peter J ^a   Fenwick, Stanley G ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c Center for Agricultural Biotechnology (AG BIO/PEDRO CHE)   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Bartonella spp.; Fleas; Marsupials; Ticks; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SYNTHASE; RNA 16S;

ACANTHOPSYLLA JORDANI; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTECHINUS FLAVIPES; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BARTONELLA; CANDIDATUS BARTONELLA ANTECHINI; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA SEQUENCE; FLEA; FTSZ GENE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GLTA GENE; IXODES; IXODES ANTECHINI; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; RPOB GENE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FLEA INFESTATIONS; IXODES; MARSUPIALIA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIPHONAPTERA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ACANTHOPSYLLA; AEROBIC BACILLUS; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMALIA; ANTECHINUS FLAVIPES; ARTHROPODA; BARTONELLA; IXODES ANTECHINI; IXODES TASMANI; IXODIDA; MACROPODIDAE; MACROPUS GIGANTEUS; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PHASCOLARCTIDAE; PHASCOLARCTOS CINEREUS; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 79953060576     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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