TY - JOUR AU - O'Rourke, Laurie AU - Pitulle, Christian AU - Hegarty, Barbara AU - Kraycirik, Sharon AU - Killary, Karen AU - Grosenstein, Paul AU - Brown, James AU - Breitschwerdt, Edward T1 - Bartonella quintana in Cynomolgus Monkey (Macaca fascicularis) T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2005 VL - 11 IS - 12 SP - 1931 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We identified a Bartonella quintana strain by polymerase chain reaction amplification, cloning, and sequencing of DNA extracted from lysed erythrocytes and cultured colonies grown from peripheral blood collected from a captive-bred cynomolgus monkey (Macaca fascicularis). This report describes naturally acquired B. quintana infection in a nonhuman primate. KW - Bartonella quintana KW - Trench fever KW - Non-human reservoir KW - Cynomolgus monkey KW - Macaca fascicularis KW - Hemotropic organism KW - 16S ribosomal DNA KW - RNase P RNA 23S ribosomal DNA KW - 16-23S rDNA internally transcribed spacer region KW - gltA KW - dispatch KW - Vietnam KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid1112.030045 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/12/03-0045_article ER - End of Reference