Bartonella DNA in loggerhead sea turtles
| Autor: | Craig A. Harms, Joanne Braun-McNeill, Henry S. Marr, K. Hope Valentine, Maria B. Cadenas, Edward B. Breitschwerdt, Ricardo G. Maggi, Adam J. Birkenheuer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Microbiology (medical)
Fastidious organism Bartonella DNA Bacterial Epidemiology lcsh:Medicine Subspecies Biology medicine.disease_cause Polymerase Chain Reaction Pap 31 lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases Microbiology law.invention PCR analysis law Bartonella Infections medicine North Carolina Animals lcsh:RC109-216 Letters to the Editor Atlantic Ocean Polymerase chain reaction Caretta caretta Ecology Intracellular parasite lcsh:R ITS region Pathogenic bacteria biology.organism_classification Turtles Infectious Diseases Loggerhead sea turtle Bartonella Infection Arthropod Vector |
| Zdroj: | Emerging Infectious Diseases Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 13, Iss 6, Pp 949-949 (2007) |
| ISSN: | 1080-6040 |
| Popis: | To the Editor: Bartonella are fastidious, aerobic, gram-negative, facultative, intracellular bacteria that infect erythrocytes, erythroblasts, endothelial cells, monocytes, and dendritic cells, and are transmitted by arthropod vectors or by animal scratches or bites (1–6). Currently, 20 species or subspecies of Bartonella have been characterized, of which 8 are known zoonotic pathogens (7). B. henselae has been recently identified from canine blood (8) and from harbor porpoises (9). Pathogenic bacteria are an important threat in terrestrial and marine environments, and in the case of B. henselae, reservoir hosts may be more diverse than currently recognized. |
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