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Clinical evaluation of outdoor cats exposed to ectoparasites and associated risk for vector-borne infections in southern Italy

Parasites & Vectors, 2018
Background Cats can be carriers of infected arthropods and be infected with several vector-borne pathogens (VBP) but there is limited knowledge about their pathogenic role in cats.
Maria Flaminia Persichetti, Maria Grazia Pennisi, Angela Vullo, Marisa Masucci, Antonella Migliazzo, Laia Solano-Gallego   +5 more
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Exotic Small Mammals as Potential Reservoirs of Zoonotic Bartonella spp.

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009
To evaluate the risk for emerging human infections caused by zoonotic Bartonella spp. from exotic small mammals, we investigated the prevalence of Bartonella spp.
Kai Inoue, Soichi Maruyama, Hidenori Kabeya, Keiko Hagiya, Yasuhito Izumi, Yumi Une, Yasuhiro Yoshikawa   +6 more
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Geographical distribution of Bartonella spp in the countries of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (WHO-EMRO)

Journal of Infection and Public Health
Bartonellosis is a vector-borne and zoonotic diseases in humans, especially in immunocompromised individuals. However, there is no complete data about the geographical distribution of different species of Bartonella, as well as the status of its ...
Zahra Tahmasebi Ashtiani, Mozhgan Ahmadinezhad, Fahimeh Bagheri Amiri, Saber Esmaeili   +3 more
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Human endocarditis on prosthetic valves due to Bartonella vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii

International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Bartonella spp. infections are increasingly recognized as causes of zoonotic diseases. One of the most severe infections caused by Bartonella spp. is infective endocarditis, predominantly affecting individuals with underlying valvular heart disease ...
Iñaki Beguiristain, Aitziber Aguinaga, Miguel Fernandez-Huerta, Rafael Sadaba, Carmen Ezpeleta   +4 more
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Prevalence and genetic diversity of rodent-associated Bartonella in Hulunbuir border regions, China

Heliyon
Bartonella spp. are globally distributed gram-negative facultative intracellular bacteria that infect a wide range of hosts. Rodents are natural reservoirs of many Bartonella species, some of which are also pathogenic to humans.
Xuexia Wen, Yaoqi Fang, Feng Jiang, Yixin Wang, Qijun Chen, Zeliang Chen, Yuhan Wu, Qing Xin, Xiaohu Han, Hua Deng   +9 more
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Human Exposure to Novel Bartonella Species from Contact with Fruit Bats

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018
Twice a year in southwestern Nigeria, during a traditional bat festival, community participants enter designated caves to capture bats, which are then consumed for food or traded. We investigated the presence of Bartonella species in Egyptian fruit bats (
Ying Bai, Modupe O.V. Osinubi, Lynn Osikowicz, Clifton McKee, Neil M. Vora, Maria Rosales Rizzo, Sergio Recuenco, Lora Davis, Mike Niezgoda, Ajoke M. Ehimiyein, Grace S.N. Kia, Akin Oyemakinde, Olufunmilayo Sanni Adeniyi, Yemi H. Gbadegesin, Olugbon A. Saliman, Abiodun Ogunniyi, Albert B. Ogunkoya, Michael Y. Kosoy   +17 more
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Immunofluorescence analysis reveals no increased seroprevalence of anti-Bartonella schoenbuchensis-IgG antibodies in German forest workers

Parasites & Vectors
Background Bartonella schoenbuchensis is suspected to cause deer ked dermatitis and febrile diseases in humans. Deer keds (Lipoptena cervi), which infest cervids (e.g., roe deer, fallow deer), are discussed as potential vectors for B.
Kim Nina Buntrock, Wibke Ballhorn, Heike Podlich, Johan Malmström, Lotta Happonen, Sounak Chowdhury, Annette Jurke, Volkhard A. J. Kempf   +7 more
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Genetic diversity of Bartonella infection in residential and field rodents in Hebei, China

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
Rodents are the primary natural reservoirs of Bartonella spp., and some of which are zoonotic causative agents. Hence, surveillance of Bartonella sp. infection in rodents is very important for the prevention of human bartonellosis caused by them. In this
Rui Jian, Qing Ren, Jing Xue, Guang-Cheng Xie, Jiangli Wang, Guo-Qing Chen, Luanying Du, Wen-Ping Guo   +7 more
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Development of a loop‐mediated isothermal amplification‐lateral flow dipstick (LAMP‐LFD) assay and on‐site rapid detection evaluation for Rodentibacter heylii and Rodentibacter pneumotropicus

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
This study established a closed‐tube LAMP‐LFD assay for detecting Rodentibacter heylii and Rodentibacter pneumotropicus. The method exhibited high sensitivity (detection limits of 10−5 ng/μL for R. heylii and 10−4 ng/μL for R. pneumotropicus), high specificity, reliable performance with clinical samples, and effective validation in experimental ...
Huiqiong Yan, Sisi Chen, Yuhan Gan, Jing Xing, Yufang Feng, Xin Wen, Jie Fang, Jiangtao Du, Shasang Zhou, Honggang Guo, Xiaoyin Jin, Zhiyuan Wang, Junhao Tao, Lingqun Lu, Qingming Kong, Huazhong Ying, Wei Han, Fangwei Dai   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sneaky tactics: Ingenious immune evasion mechanisms of Bartonella

Virulence
Gram-negative Bartonella species are facultative intracellular bacteria that can survive in the harsh intracellular milieu of host cells. They have evolved strategies to evade detection and degradation by the host immune system, which ensures their ...
Yixuan Xi, Xinru Li, Lu Liu, Feichen Xiu, Xinchao Yi, Hongliang Chen, Xiaoxing You   +6 more
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