Bartonella quintana in domestic cat.

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.

SUBMITTER: La VD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3320506 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature