Volume 28, Number 2—February 2022
Research Letter
Genetic Diversity of Bartonella spp. in Cave-Dwelling Bats and Bat Flies, Costa Rica, 2018
Miranda M. Mitchell1, Amanda Vicente-Santos1, Bernal Rodríguez-Herrera, Eugenia Corrales-Aguilar, and Thomas R. Gillespie
Table
Prevalence of Bartonella spp. in bats and bat flies sampled from roost sites, Costa Rica, 2018
| Species | No. positive/no. sampled |
|---|---|
| Bats | |
| Artibeus jamaicensis | 0/1 |
| Balantiopteryx plicata | 0/4 |
| Carollia perspicillata | 19/79 |
| Desmodus rotundus | 1/25 |
| Diphylla ecaudata | 0/1 |
| Glossophaga commisarisi | 0/12 |
| Glossophaga soricina | 0/10 |
| Lonchophylla robusta | 1/25 |
| Lonchorhina aurita | 0/13 |
| Macrophyllum macrophyllum | 1/1 |
| Phyllostomus hastatus | 0/4 |
| Pteronotus gymnonotus | 3/11 |
| Pteronotus mesoamericanus | 2/56 |
| Pteropteryx kappleri | 0/1 |
| Tonatia saurophilia | 0/1 |
| Trachops cirrhosis | 0/8 |
| Total | 27/252 |
*For bat flies, no. sampled indicates no. sampled pools. †Newly described species with Bartonella.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
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