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. 2017 Mar;23(3):539-541.
doi: 10.3201/eid2303.160934.

Potentially Zoonotic Bartonella in Bats from France and Spain

Matthew J Stuckey, Henri-Jean Boulouis, Florence Cliquet, Evelyne Picard-Meyer, Alexandre Servat, Nidia Aréchiga-Ceballos, Juan E Echevarría, Bruno B Chomel

Potentially Zoonotic Bartonella in Bats from France and Spain

Matthew J Stuckey et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2017 Mar.

Abstract

We detected Bartonella in 11 of 109 insectivorous bats from France and 1 of 26 bats from Spain. These genetic variants are closely related to bat-associated Bartonella described in Finland and the United Kingdom and to B. mayotimonensis, the agent of a human endocarditis case in the United States.

Keywords: Bartonella spp; France; Spain; bacteria; bartonellae; bats; zoonoses.

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Phylogenetic analysis of citrate synthase (gltA) gene sequences of 12 Bartonella spp. variants detected in bats from France and Spain (underlined) compared with sequences from GenBank. All 12 of these variants clustered with zoonotic B. mayotimonensis.
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