Prevalence and Diversity of Small Mammal-Associated Bartonella Species in Rural and Urban Kenya

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Halliday, Jo E B ^a   Knobel, Darryn L ^b   Agwanda, Bernard ^c   Bai, Ying ^d   Breiman, Robert F ^e,f   Cleaveland, Sarah ^a   Njenga, M Kariuki ^g,h   Kosoy, Michael ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine   (Saint Kitts and Nevis)

^c INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

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

^e Mailstop D 69   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^h Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Kenya   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BARTONELLOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; KENYA; MASTOMYS NATALENSIS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RURAL POPULATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; URBAN POPULATION; ANIMAL; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MURIDAE; PREVALENCE; RAT; SHREW;

ANIMALS; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; KENYA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURIDAE; PREVALENCE; RATS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHREWS;

EID: 84928815190     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003608     Document Type: Article

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