title: Isolation of Bartonella schoenbuchensis from Lipoptena cervi, a blood-sucking arthropod causing deer ked dermatitis.
abstract: Bartonella schoenbuchensis, which commonly causes bacteremia in ruminants, was isolated from the deer ked Lipoptena cervi and was shown to localize to the midgut of this blood-sucking arthropod, causing deer ked dermatitis in humans. The role of B. schoenbuchensis in the etiology of deer ked dermatitis should be further investigated.
authors.affiliation: Division of Molecular Microbiology, Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Klingelbergstr. 70, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland. christoph.dehio@unibas.ch
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dehio
authors.forename: Ursula
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Sauder
authors.forename: Rosemarie
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hiestand
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001179:Arthropod Vectors / Q000382:microbiology; D001473:Bartonella / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D001474:Bartonella Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission*; D003670:Deer / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology; D003872:Dermatitis / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000473:pathology; D004175:Diptera / Q000382:microbiology*; D004478:Ectoparasitic Infestations / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007299:Insect Bites and Stings; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA