Bartonella quintana in Domestic Cat

La, Vu Dang; Tran-Hung, Lam; Aboudharam, Gérard; Raoult, Didier; Drancourt, Michel

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Bartonella quintana in Domestic Cat

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Aug 2005
By La, Vu Dang ; Tran-Hung, Lam ; Aboudharam, Gérard ; ...

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Emerg Infect Dis
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La, Vu Dang ; Tran-Hung, Lam ; Aboudharam, Gérard ; Raoult, Didier ; Drancourt, Michel
Description:

We recovered Bartonella quintana DNA from dental pulp of a domestic cat. This study, the first to detect B. quintana in a nonhuman mammal, changes our understanding of the epidemiology of this infection and proposes that cats may be an emerging source of human infection.
Subjects:

Amino Acid Sequence Animals Bartonella Quintana Base Sequence Cat Cat Diseases Cats Dental Pulp Dispatch DNA, Bacterial DNA, Ribosomal Spacer Keywords: Bartonella Quintana Molecular Sequence Data Polymerase Chain Reaction Sequence Alignment Sequence Analysis, DNA Trench Fever
Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 11(8):1287-1289.
Document Type:

Journal Article
Volume:

11
Issue:

8
Collection(s):

Emerging Infectious Diseases
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urn:sha256:9d5344997cc4a07779b5976c941ed0189cf44d7bd033637ac5599abec99e434d
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https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/14755/cdc_14755_DS1.pdf
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