Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2015)

Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata) as Natural Reservoir of Bartonella quintana

  • Shingo Sato,
  • Hidenori Kabeya,
  • Aika Yoshino,
  • Wataru Sekine,
  • Kazuo Suzuki,
  • Hidetoshi B. Tamate,
  • Shouki Yamazaki,
  • Bruno B. Chomel,
  • Soichi Maruyama

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2112.150632
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 12
pp. 2168 – 2170

Abstract

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Bartonella quintana bacteremia was detected in 6 (13.3%) of 45 wild-caught Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). Multilocus sequence typing of the isolates revealed that Japanese macaques were infected with a new and specific B. quintana sequence type. Free-ranging Japanese macaques thus represent another natural reservoir of B. quintana.

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