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Prevalence and diversity of Bartonella spp. in bats in PeruYing Bai
Division of Vector Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 87:518-23. 2012..Rarely found in other bat species, the Bartonella strains of phylogroups I and III discovered from the common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) were more specific to the host bat species, suggesting some level of host specificity...
Bartonella vinsonii subsp. arupensis in humans, ThailandYing Bai
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 18:989-91. 2012....
Enrichment culture and molecular identification of diverse Bartonella species in stray dogsYing Bai
Division of Vector Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3150 Rampart Road, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA
Vet Microbiol 146:314-9. 2010..Further work is needed to determine the role of those newly discovered Bartonella genotypes/species in human and veterinary medicine...
Persistent infection or successive reinfection of deer mice with Bartonella vinsonii subsp. arupensisYing Bai
Bacterial Diseases Branch, Division of Vector Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3150 Rampart Road, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 77:1728-31. 2011..Genetic analysis demonstrated that deer mouse-borne bartonella isolates at this site belong to the same species, B. vinsonii subsp. arupensis, demonstrating a specific relationship between B. vinsonii subsp. arupensis and deer mice...
Bartonella spp. in Bats, GuatemalaYing Bai
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 17:1269-72. 2011..prevalence and genetic diversity in bats in Guatemala during 2009. We found prevalence of 33% and identified 21 genetic variants of 13 phylogroups. Vampire bat-associated Bartonella spp. may cause undiagnosed illnesses in humans...
Isolation of Bartonella capreoli from elkYing Bai
Division of Vector Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3150 Rampart Road, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA
Vet Microbiol 148:329-32. 2011..Our finding first time demonstrated that B. capreoli has a wide geographic range, and that elk may be another host for this bacterium. Further investigations are needed to determine the impact of this bacterium on wildlife...
Bartonella tamiae sp. nov., a newly recognized pathogen isolated from three human patients from ThailandMichael Kosoy
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Vector Borne Infectious Diseases, 3150 Rampart Road, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA
J Clin Microbiol 46:772-5. 2008....
Identification of Bartonella infections in febrile human patients from Thailand and their potential animal reservoirsMichael Kosoy
Division of Vector Borne Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 82:1140-5. 2010..The findings suggest that rodents are likely reservoirs for a substantial portion of cases of human Bartonella infections in Thailand...
Prevalence and genetic heterogeneity of Bartonella strains cultured from rodents from 17 provinces in ThailandYing Bai
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 81:811-6. 2009..The only isolate from a Berylmys berdmorei fell into the B. tribocorum group. The observations highlight the need to study these agents for their role in human febrile illnesses of unknown etiology in Thailand and elsewhere in Asia...
Prevalence and diversity of Bartonella in rodents of northern Thailand: a comparison with Bartonella in rodents from southern ChinaKevin T Castle
Bacterial Zoonoses Branch, Division of Vector Borne Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Foothills Campus, Fort Collins, Colorado 80522, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 70:429-33. 2004..Importantly, a number of the isolates from Thailand rodents are closely related to B. grahamii and B. elizabethae, species which have been associated with human illness...
Bartonella spp. in bats, KenyaMichael Kosoy
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 16:1875-81. 2010..In contrast, E. helvum and Miniopterus spp. bats harbored strains that clustered in several groups. Further investigation is needed to determine whether these agents are responsible for human illnesses in the region...
Detection of Bartonella tamiae DNA in ectoparasites from rodents in Thailand and their sequence similarity with bacterial cultures from Thai patientsHidenori Kabeya
Division of Vector Borne Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 10:429-34. 2010..This is the first report of the detection of B. tamiae DNA in chigger mites; additional field and experimental investigations are required to determine the role of chigger mites as potential vectors of B. tamiae...
Development of a novel genus-specific real-time PCR assay for detection and differentiation of Bartonella species and genotypesMaureen H Diaz
Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Clin Microbiol 50:1645-9. 2012....
Detection of novel Bartonella strains and Yersinia pestis in prairie dogs and their fleas (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae and Pulicidae) using multiplex polymerase chain reactionHeather L Stevenson
Bacterial Zoonoses Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
J Med Entomol 40:329-37. 2003..Phylogenetic analyses indicate that the sequences of bartonellae from prairie dogs and prairie dog fleas cluster tightly within a clade that is distinct from those containing other known Bartonella genotypes...
Bartonella spp. Infections, ThailandSaithip Bhengsri
Thailand Minstry of Public Health US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Collaboration, Nonthaburi, Thailand S Bhengsri, H C Baggett, L F Peruski Jr, T L Fisk, S A Maloney Thailand Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi A Sitdhirasdr Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA S F Dowell and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA C Morway, Y Bai, M Kosoy
Emerg Infect Dis 16:743-5. 2010..5% prevalence of past B. henselae infection (7). No studies have systematically assessed the frequency, clinical characteristics, or epidemiology of human Bartonella infections in Thailand...
Bartonella strains in small mammals from Dhaka, Bangladesh, related to Bartonella in America and EuropeYing Bai
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Vector Borne Infectious Diseases, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 77:567-70. 2007....
Bartonella strains from ground squirrels are identical to Bartonella washoensis isolated from a human patientMichael Kosoy
Division of Vector Borne Infectious Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado 80522, USA
J Clin Microbiol 41:645-50. 2003..beecheyi) were completely identical to homologous sequences of B. washoensis, strongly suggesting that these animals were the source of infection in the human case...
Characterization of Bartonella strains isolated from black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus)Ying Bai
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 8:1-5. 2008..We propose to name the bacteria Candidatus Bartonella washoensis subsp. cynomysii. The type strain is CL8606co(T)(=ATCC BAA-1342(T) = CCUG 53213(T)), which is the representative isolate of the dominant variant of the characterized group...
Bartonella seroprevalence in rural ThailandSaithip Bhengsri
International Emerging Infections Program, Thailand MOPH US CDC Collaboration, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 42:687-92. 2011..3%) had seropositivity to B. quintana, 51 (9.8%) to B. elizabethae, and 19 (3.6%) to B. vinsonii subsp vinsonii. These results suggest exposure to Bartonella species is more common in rural Thailand than previously suspected...
Temporal and spatial patterns of Bartonella infection in black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus)Ying Bai
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Microb Ecol 56:373-82. 2008..The potential significance of the BTPD-associated Bartonella for public health needs to be further investigated...
Acquisition of nonspecific Bartonella strains by the northern grasshopper mouse (Onychomys leucogaster)Ying Bai
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 61:438-48. 2007....
