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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Vu Dang
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Université de la Méditerranée-Unité des Rickettsies, CNRS UMR 6020, IFR 48, Marseille, France.
Tran-Hung
Lam
L
Aboudharam
Gérard
G
Raoult
Didier
D
Drancourt
Michel
M
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D018413:Bartonella quintana / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D001483:Base Sequence; D002371:Cat Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D002415:Cats; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D021903:DNA, Ribosomal Spacer / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D003782:Dental Pulp / Q000382:microbiology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000662:veterinary; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014205:Trench Fever / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*
D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D021903:DNA, Ribosomal Spacer