Volume 11, Number 8—August 2005
Dispatch
Bartonella quintana in Domestic Cat
Vu Dang La*, Lam Tran-Hung*, Gérard Aboudharam*, Didier Raoult*
, and Michel Drancourt*
, and Michel Drancourt*
Table 1
Results of cat tooth investigation for Bartonella spp.*
| Cat | pap31 | ITS | 336 | 894 | Sequencing results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | + | + | NT | NT | B. henselae (1 mutation for pap31) and 100% similarity for ITS |
| 2 | + | + | + | + | B. quintana 100% similarity for 4 genomic regions |
| 3 | – | – | NT | NT | |
| 4 | – | – | NT | NT | |
| 5 | – | – | NT | NT | |
| 6 | – | – | NT | NT | |
| 7 | – | – | NT | NT | |
| 8 | – | – | NT | NT | |
| 9 | – | – | NT | NT |
*ITS, internal transcribed spacer; NT, not tested.
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