TY - JOUR AU - Mitchell, Miranda AU - Vicente-Santos, Amanda AU - Rodríguez-Herrera, Bernal AU - Corrales-Aguilar, Eugenia AU - Gillespie, Thomas T1 - Genetic Diversity of Bartonella spp. in Cave-Dwelling Bats and Bat Flies, Costa Rica, 2018 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2022 VL - 28 IS - 2 SP - 488 SN - 1080-6059 AB - To determine Bartonella spp. dynamics, we sampled bats and bat flies across 15 roosts in Costa Rica. PCR indicated prevalence of 10.7% in bats and 29.0% in ectoparasite pools. Phylogenetic analysis of 8 sequences from bats and 5 from bat fly pools revealed 11 distinct genetic variants, including 2 potentially new genotypes. KW - Bartonella spp. KW - bats KW - bat flies KW - Costa Rica KW - genetic diversity KW - bacteria DO - 10.3201/eid2802.211686 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/2/21-1686_article ER - End of Reference