Survey of Bartonella species infecting intradomicillary animals in the Huayllacallan Valley, Ancash, Peru, a region endemic for human bartonellosis
| Autor: | Palmira Ventosilla, Nivedita Doshi, Timothy G. Harrison, Didier Raoult, Juan Canales, Richard J. Birtles, Humberto Guerra, Eugenia Alvarez, Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas |
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Veterinary medicine
Natural cycle Restriction Mapping Zoology Animals Wild Rodentia Biology DNA Ribosomal Serology Mice Dogs Virology Bartonella Infections RNA Ribosomal 16S Genotype Peru medicine Animals Humans Phyllotis Bartonellosis biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Antibodies Bacterial Rats RNA Ribosomal 23S Infectious Diseases Animals Domestic Cats Parasitology Bartonella bacilliformis Bartonella Bartonella species |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier Europe PubMed Central |
| Popis: | The natural cycle of Bartonella bacilliformis remains uncertain, and the suspected existence of animal reservoirs for the bacterium has never been convincingly demonstrated. We conducted a survey of Bartonella species infecting intradomicillary animals in a bartonellosis-endemic region of Peru, obtaining blood from 50 animals living in the homes of 11 families whose children had recently had bartonellosis. Bartonella-like bacteria were recovered from four of nine small rodents included in the study, but from none of the 41 domesticated animals. Identification and comparison of these isolates, and two Bartonella-like isolates obtained from Phyllotis mice in a different endemic region of Peru using serologic and genotypic methods indicated that although none were strains of B. bacilliformis, five were probably representatives of three previously unrecognized Bartonella species and one was a likely strain of the pathogenic species B. elizabethae. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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