Bartonella quintanain Domestic Cat
Open Access
- 1 August 2005
- journal article
- Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 11 (8) , 1287-1289
- https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1108.050101
Abstract
We recovered Bartonella quintana DNA from dental pulp of a domestic cat. This study, the first to detect B. quintana in a nonhuman mammal, changes our understanding of the epidemiology of this infection and proposes that cats may be an emerging source of human infection.Keywords
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