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Volume 25, Number 7—July 2019
Research Letter

Zoonotic Bacteria in Fleas Parasitizing Common Voles, Northwestern Spain

Ruth Rodríguez-Pastor1Comments to Author , François Mougeot, Mª Dolors Vidal, Isabel Jado, Rosa M. González-Martín-Niño, Raquel Escudero2, and Juan José Luque-Larena2
Author affiliations: Universidad de Valladolid and Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Gestión Forestal Sostenible, Palencia, Spain (R. Rodríguez-Pastor, J.J. Luque-Larena); Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos, Ciudad Real, Spain (F. Mougeot); Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real (M.D. Vidal); Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain (I. Jado, R.M. González-Martín-Niño, R. Escudero)

Main Article

Table

Detection of Francisella tularensis and Bartonella spp. in 2 species of fleas from live common voles (Microtus arvalis), northwestern Spain, 2013–2015*

Voles Flea species Flea pools
 Fleas
No. F. tularensis–positive, % Bartonella spp.–positive, % No. F. tularensis prevalence, % (range) Bartonella spp. prevalence, % (range)
All All 90 3.3 31.1 191 6.1 (3.3–8.8) 51.1([31.1–71.1)
Nosopsyllus fasciatus 51 2.6 37.3 113 6.9 (3.9–9.8) 64.7 (37.3–92.2)
Ctenophthalmus apertus
 39
 3.9
 23.1
78
 5.1 (2.6–7.7)
 33.3 (23.1–43.6)
F. tularensis–negative All 63 127 0
N. fasciatus 32 71 0
C. apertus 31 56 0
F. tularensis–positive All 27 64 20.4 (11.1–29.6)
N. fasciatus 19 42 18.4 (10.5–26.3)
C. apertus
 8
22
 25.0 (12.5–37.5)
Bartonella spp.–negative All 45 93 44.4 (26.7–62.2)
N. fasciatus 21 53 71.4 (38.1–100)
C. apertus 24 40 20.8 (16.7–25.0)
Bartonella spp.–positive All 45 98 51.1 (31.1–71.1)
N. fasciatus 30 60 60 (36.7–83.3)
C. apertus 15 38 53.3 (33.3–73.3)

*Blank cells indicate that nothing can be calculated for that option.

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1Current affiliation: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel.

2These authors contributed equally to this article.

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