Volume 15, Number 4—April 2009
Research
Exotic Small Mammals as Potential Reservoirs of Zoonotic Bartonella spp.
Kai Inoue, Soichi Maruyama
, Hidenori Kabeya, Keiko Hagiya, Yasuhito Izumi, Yumi Une, and Yasuhiro Yoshikawa
, Hidenori Kabeya, Keiko Hagiya, Yasuhito Izumi, Yumi Une, and Yasuhiro YoshikawaTable 2
Multiple infection of different Bartonella genotypes in exotic small mammals imported into Japan as pets, June 2004–October 2007
| Host | No. animals | GenBank accession nos. of the isolates in 9 genogroups* |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | I | J | ||
| Daurian ground squirrel |
1 |
4962
4963 |
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| Siberian chipmunk |
1 | 4965 4966 | ||||||||
| 1 |
4964
4965 |
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| Tricolored squirrel |
2 | 4977 | 4995 | |||||||
| 1 |
4977 |
4996 |
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| American red squirrel |
1 |
4971 |
5006 |
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| Southern flying squirrel |
1 |
4972
4973 |
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| Columbian ground squirrel |
1 |
4957
4958 |
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| Richardson's ground squirrel |
2 | 4959 4960 | ||||||||
| 1 | 4954 4959 | |||||||||
| 1 |
4954
4955 |
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| Fat-tailed gerbil |
3 |
4978 |
5003 |
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| Golden spiny mouse |
1 |
4979 |
4998 |
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| Fat sand rat |
1 |
4984 |
5002 |
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| Bushy-tailed jird |
1 | 4988 4989 | ||||||||
| 1 | 4991 | 5004 | ||||||||
| 1 |
4987
4989 |
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| Large Egyptian gerbil |
1 |
4981 |
5001 |
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| Greater Egyptian jerboa |
1 | 4975 4976 | ||||||||
| 1 |
4986 |
5005 |
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| Lesser Egyptian jerboa | 1 | 4986 4985 | 5005 | |||||||
*GenBank accession numbers all begin with AB44 and are abbreviated to the last 4 digits; e.g., AB444962 appears as 4962.
