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COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 36, Issue 2, Pages 105-111Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cimid.2012.10.004
Keywords
Bartonella henselae; Ctenocephalides felis; Arthropod vector
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- Pasteur Institute
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique [URA2172]
- Agence Nationale pour la Recherche [ANR-06-MIME-019-01]
- Ecole Nationale Veterinaire de Toulouse
- DIM Malinf [dim100103]
- China Scholarship Council
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The blood-sucking arthropod Ctenocephalides fells has been confirmed as a vector for Bartonella henselae and is a suspected vector for Bartonella clarridgeiae, Bartonella quintana and Bartonella koehlerae in Bartonella transmission to mammals. To understand the absence of other Bartonella species in the cat flea, we have developed an artificial flea-feeding method with blood infected successively with five different Bartonella species. The results demonstrated the ability of these five Bartonella species to persist in C. felis suggesting an ability of fleas to be a potential vector for several Bartonella species. In addition, we demonstrated a regurgitation of Bartonella DNA in uninfected blood used to feed C. felis thus suggesting a potential horizontal transmission of Bartonella through C. felis saliva. On the contrary, no vertical transmission was detected in these artificial conditions. (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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