Bartonella quintana in Domestic Cat

Vu Dang La
Lam Tran-Hung
Gérard Aboudharam
Didier Raoult
Michel Drancourt

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Publication date

August 2005

DOI

10.3201/eid1108.050101

Publisher

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Journal

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Abstract

We recovered Bartonella quintana DNA from dental pulp of a domestic cat. This study, the first to detect B. quintana in a nonhuman mammal, changes our understanding of the epidemiology of this infection and proposes that cats may be an emerging source of human infection