Bartonella spp. in bats, Guatemala

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1269-1272

  Bai, Ying ^a   Kosoy, Michael ^a   Recuenco, Sergio ^a   Alvarez, Danilo ^b   Moran, David ^b   Turmelle, Amy ^a   Ellison, James ^a   Garcia, Daniel L ^a   Estevez, Alejandra ^b   Lindblade, Kim ^a   Rupprecht, Charles ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE DE GUATEMALA   (Guatemala)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BARTONELLA; BAT; BLOOD SAMPLING; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GUATEMALA; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; CHIROPTERA; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; GENETIC VARIATION; GUATEMALA; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79959884946     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1707.101867     Document Type: Article

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