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Volume 26, Number 4—April 2020

Dispatch

Detection of Zoonotic Bartonella Pathogens in Rabbit Fleas, Colorado, USA

Shingo Sato1, R. Jory Brinkerhoff1Comments to Author , Erin Hollis, Shunta Funada, Avery B. Shannon, and Soichi Maruyama
Author affiliations: Nihon University College of Bioresource Sciences, Fujisawa, Japan (S. Sato, S. Funada, S. Maruyama); University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, USA (R.J. Brinkerhoff, E. Hollis, A.B. Shannon); University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa (R.J. Brinkerhoff)

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Table 1

Fleas collected from desert cottontail rabbits (Sylvilagus audubonii) in Boulder County, Colorado, USA, and analyzed for presence of Bartonella

Rabbit ID no. Sampling date No. fleas collected (no. tested) No. Bartonella-positive fleas (no. tested), % positive
 Bartonella prevalence in fleas, %
Cediopsylla inaequalis Euhoplopsyllus glacialis
304 2005 Jul 14 51 (21) 0 (1), 0 0 (20), 0 0
305 2005 Jul 14 2 (2) 0 1 (2), 50 50.0
522 2005 Jul 18 55 (53) 2 (19), 11 6 (34), 18 15.1
633 2005 Jul 18 17 (17) 0 (4), 0 11 (13), 85 64.7
673 2005 Jul 21 4 (2) 0, 0 1 (2), 50 50.0
674 2005 Jul 21 8 (7) 0, 0 2 (7), 29 28.6
794
 2005 Jul 28
 4 (3)
 0, 0
 0 (3), 0
 0
Total 141* (105) 2 (24) 21 (81) 21.9

*Thirty-six fleas had been processed for Yesinia pestis surveillance in a previous project (R.J. Brinkerhoff et al., unpub. data) and thus were not tested for this study.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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