Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2005)

Bartonella quintana in Domestic Cat

  • Vu Dang La,
  • Lam Tran-Hung,
  • Gérard Aboudharam,
  • Didier Raoult,
  • Michel Drancourt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1108.050101
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 8
pp. 1287 – 1289

Abstract

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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.

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