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Prevalence of Bartonella spp. by culture, PCR and serology, in veterinary personnel from Spain
Parasites & Vectors, 2017 Background The genus Bartonella includes fastidious, facultative intracellular bacteria mainly transmitted by arthropods and distributed among mammalian reservoirs. Bartonella spp. implicated as etiological agents of zoonoses are increasing.
José A. Oteo +7 more
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Bartonella spp. bacteremia in blood donors from Campinas, Brazil.
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015 Bartonella species are blood-borne, re-emerging organisms, capable of causing prolonged infection with diverse disease manifestations, from asymptomatic bacteremia to chronic debilitating disease and death.
Luiza Helena Urso Pitassi +11 more
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Fatal myocarditis-associated
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2009 Introduction Bartonella spp. infection is not rare and must be considered with great care in patients with suspected infective endocarditis, particularly if regular blood cultures remain sterile.
Montcriol Ambroise +6 more
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Bartonella quintana in Body Lice and Head Lice from Homeless Persons, San Francisco, California, USA
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009 Bartonella quintana is a bacterium that causes trench fever in humans. Past reports have shown Bartonella spp. infections in homeless populations in San Francisco, California, USA.
Denise L. Bonilla +4 more
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Bartonella quintana deploys host and vector temperature-specific transcriptomes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The bacterial pathogen Bartonella quintana is passed between humans by body lice. B. quintana has adapted to both the human host and body louse vector niches, producing persistent infection with high titer bacterial loads in both the host (up to 10(5 ...
Stephanie Abromaitis +6 more
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Bartonella quintana Infections in Captive Monkeys, China
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011 Bartonella quintana has been considered to be specifically adapted to humans. Our isolation of the organism from 2 of 36 captive rhesus macaques in China and finding antibodies against B.
Ruting Huang +6 more
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The Trw type IV secretion system of Bartonella mediates host-specific adhesion to erythrocytes.
PLoS Pathogens, 2010 Bacterial pathogens typically infect only a limited range of hosts; however, the genetic mechanisms governing host-specificity are poorly understood.
Muriel Vayssier-Taussat +16 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023 Persons experiencing homelessness in São Paulo, Brazil, were seropositive for Bartonella spp. (79/109, 72.5%) and typhus group rickettsiae (40/109, 36.7%).
Álvaro A. Faccini-Martínez +14 more
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Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata) as Natural Reservoir of Bartonella quintana
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015 Bartonella quintana bacteremia was detected in 6 (13.3%) of 45 wild-caught Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). Multilocus sequence typing of the isolates revealed that Japanese macaques were infected with a new and specific B.
Shingo Sato +8 more
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Journal of Infection and Public HealthBartonellosis 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 +3 more
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