Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2017)

Potentially Zoonotic Bartonella in Bats from France and Spain

  • Matthew J. Stuckey,
  • Henri-Jean Boulouis,
  • Florence Cliquet,
  • Evelyne Picard-Meyer,
  • Alexandre Servat,
  • Nidia Aréchiga-Ceballos,
  • Juan E. Echevarría,
  • Bruno B. Chomel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2303.160934
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 3
pp. 539 – 541

Abstract

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We detected Bartonella in 11 of 109 insectivorous bats from France and 1 of 26 bats from Spain. These genetic variants are closely related to bat-associated Bartonella described in Finland and the United Kingdom and to B. mayotimonensis, the agent of a human endocarditis case in the United States.

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