Potentially Zoonotic Bartonella in Bats from France and Spain
Matthew J. Stuckey, Henri-Jean Boulouis, Florence Cliquet, Evelyne Picard-Meyer, Alexandre Servat, Nidia Aréchiga-Ceballos, Juan E. Echevarría, and Bruno B. Chomel
Author affiliations: University of California, Davis, USA (M.J. Stuckey, B.B. Chomel); Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort, Maisons-Alfort, France (H.-J. Boulouis); Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire de l’Alimentation,de l’Environnement et du Travail (ANSES); Laboratoire de la Rage et de la Faune Sauvage de Nancy, Malzéville, France (F. Cliquet, E. Picard-Meyer, A. Servat); Laboratorio de Rabia, Instituto de Diagnóstico y Referencia Epidemiológicos, Mexico City, Mexico (N. Aréchiga-Ceballos); Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP); Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain (J.E. Echevarría)
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Figure. Phylogenetic analysis of citrate synthase (gltA) gene sequences of 12 Bartonella spp. variants detected in bats from France and Spain (underlined) compared with sequences from GenBank. All 12 of these variants clustered with zoonotic B. mayotimonensis.
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