Bartonella quintana in domestic cat

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.

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Veröffentlicht in:	Emerging infectious diseases 2005-08, Vol.11 (8), p.1287-1289
Hauptverfasser:	La, Vu Dang, Tran-Hung, Lam, Aboudharam, Gérard, Raoult, Didier, Drancourt, Michel
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Amino Acid Sequence Animals Bartonella quintana Bartonella quintana - genetics Bartonella quintana - isolation & purification Base Sequence cat Cat Diseases - microbiology Cats dental pulp Dental Pulp - microbiology Diseases Dispatch DNA, Bacterial - chemistry DNA, Bacterial - genetics DNA, Ribosomal Spacer - chemistry DNA, Ribosomal Spacer - genetics France Keywords: Bartonella quintana Molecular Sequence Data Polymerase Chain Reaction - veterinary Sequence Alignment Sequence Analysis, DNA Trench Fever - microbiology Trench Fever - veterinary Verruga peruana
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Zusammenfassung:	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.
ISSN:	1080-6040 1080-6059
DOI:	10.3201/eid1108.050101