Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2008)

Rickettsia felis in Fleas, Germany

  • Jeremie Gilles,
  • Frank Thomas Just,
  • Cornelia Silaghi,
  • Ingrid Pradel,
  • Lygia Maria Friche Passos,
  • Heidi Lengauer,
  • Klaus Hellmann,
  • Kurt Pfister

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1408.071546
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 8
pp. 1294 – 1296

Abstract

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Among 310 fleas collected from dogs and cats in Germany, Rickettsia felis was detected in all specimens (34) of Archaeopsylla erinacei (hedgehog flea) and in 9% (24/226) of Ctenocephalides felis felis (cat flea). R. helvetica was detected in 1 Ceratophyllus gallinae (hen flea).

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