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. 2005 Aug;11(8):1287-9.
doi: 10.3201/eid1108.050101.

Bartonella quintana in domestic cat

Vu Dang La  1 , Lam Tran-Hung, Gérard Aboudharam, Didier Raoult, Michel Drancourt
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Bartonella quintana in domestic cat

Vu Dang La et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 Aug.

Abstract

We recovered Bartonella quintana DNA from dental pulp of a domestic cat. This study, the first to detect B. quintana in a nonhuman mammal, changes our understanding of the epidemiology of this infection and proposes that cats may be an emerging source of human infection.

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Figure 1
Comparison of Bartonella henselae pap31 sequences between cat 1 and reference showing 1 mutation.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide showing the amplicons intergenic spacer (left panel) and pap31 (right panel) in cuspid teeth from 2 cats. Lanes A and E, DNA size ladder; lane B, cat 1; lane C, cat 2; lane D, negative control.
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