title: A multi-gene analysis of diversity of Bartonella detected in fleas from Algeria.
abstract: We report the molecular detection of several Bartonella species in 44 (21.5%) of 204 fleas from Algeria collected from 26 rodents and 7 hedgehogs. Bartonella elizabethae and B. clarridgeiae were detected in the fleas collected on hedgehogs. Bartonella tribocorum and B. elizabethae were detected in fleas collected from rats and mice, and sequences similar to an unnamed Bartonella sp. detected in rodents from China were detected in rats as well as a genotype of Bartonella closely related to Bartonella rochalimae detected in fleas collected on brown rats (Rattus norvegicus).
authors.affiliation: Service d'Ecologie des Systèmes Vectoriels, Institut Pasteur d'Algérie, Algiers, Algeria. idirbitam@yahoo.fr
authors.forename: Idir
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bitam
authors.forename: Jean Marc
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Rolain
authors.forename: Violaine
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Nicolas
authors.forename: Yi-Lun
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Parola
authors.forename: Vijay A K B
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Gundi
authors.forename: Bruno B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Chomel
authors.forename: Didier
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Raoult
mesh_terms: D000462:Algeria / Q000453:epidemiology; D000818:Animals; D001179:Arthropod Vectors / Q000382:microbiology*; D001473:Bartonella / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D001474:Bartonella Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D044822:Biodiversity; D005260:Female; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D006364:Hedgehogs; D008297:Male; D008390:Markov Chains; D051379:Mice; D010802:Phylogeny; D051381:Rats; D060888:Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction; D005423:Siphonaptera / Q000382:microbiology*