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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 77, Issue 21, Pages 7850-7852Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.06012-11
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Of 200 individual Xenopsylla cheopis fleas removed from Rattus norvegicus rats trapped in downtown Los Angeles, CA, 190 (95%) were positive for the presence of Bartonella DNA. Ninety-one amplicons were sequenced: Bartonella rochalimae-like DNA was detected in 66 examined fleas, and Bartonella tribocorum-like DNA was identified in 25 fleas. The data obtained from this study demonstrate an extremely high prevalence of Bartonella DNA in rat-associated fleas.
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