Bartonella Species in Small Mammals and Their Ectoparasites in Taiwan

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE - Tập 83 Số 4 - Trang 917-923 - 2010
Yi-Lun Tsai1, Shih-Te Chuang2, Chao‐Chin Chang2, Philip H. Kass3, Bruno B. Chomel4
1Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA. [email protected]
2National Chung Hsing University
3Public Health Sciences,
4Population Health and Reproduction

Tóm tắt

Bartonella spp. prevalence in small mammals and their ectoparasites was investigated in Taiwan. Blood samples were obtained from 66 rats, 20 shrews, 276 mites (Laelaps spp.), 74 fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis), 81 lice (Polyplax spp.), and 47 ticks (41 Dermacentor spp. and 6 Ixodes spp.). Bartonellae were isolated or detected in 27 (31.4%) animals. Bartonella DNA was detected in 48 (64.9%) fleas and 11 (64.7%) pooled lice samples, but not in mite and tick samples. Bartonella phoceensis, B. queenslandensis, B. tribocorum, B. elizabethae, and B. rattimassiliensis were isolated or detected in bacteremic mammals. For the first time in Taiwan, B. tribocorum, B. elizabethae, B. queenslandensis, and a B. rochalimae-like strain were detected in fleas, and B. tribocorum, B. phoceensis, and B. rattimassiliensis were detected in lice obtained from small mammals. A broader range of Bartonella species was identified in the ectoparasites than in the small mammals.

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