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Bartonella quintana and Rickettsia felis in Gabon

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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 11, Issue 11, Pages 1742-1744

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CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL
DOI: 10.3201/eid1111.050861

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We detected Rickettsia felis DNA in Ctenocephalides felis and Bartonella quintana DNA in 3 Pulex irritans fleas taken from a pet Cercopithecus cephus monkey in Gabon, sub-Saharan Africa. This is the first report of B. quintana in the human flea.

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