TY - JOUR AU - Yanagihara, Masashi AU - Tsuneoka, Hidehiro AU - Sugasaki, Motoki AU - Nojima, Junzo AU - Ichihara, Kiyoshi T1 - Multispacer Typing of Bartonella henselae Isolates from Humans and Cats, Japan T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2010 VL - 16 IS - 12 SP - 1983 SN - 1080-6059 AB - To determine genotypic distribution of and relationship between human and cat strains of Bartonella henselae, we characterized 56 specimens using multispacer typing (MST). Of 13 MST genotypes identified, 12 were grouped into cluster 1. In Japan, human infections can be caused by B. henselae strains in cluster 1. KW - Bacteria KW - zoonoses KW - Bartonella henselae KW - bartonellosis KW - cat-scratch disease KW - bacterial typing KW - intergenic sequence KW - multispacer typing KW - Japan KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1612.100962 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/12/10-0962_article ER - End of Reference