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Bartonella quintana and Rickettsia felis in Gabon

Jean-Marc Rolain, Olivier Bourry, Bernard Davoust and 1 more

Emerging Infectious Diseases · 2005

doi:10.3201/eid1111.050861 (opens in a new tab)

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Abstract

We detected Rickettsia felis DNA in Ctenocephalides felis and Bartonella quintana DNA in 3 Pulex irritans fleas taken from a pet Cercopithecus cephus monkey in Gabon, sub-Saharan Africa. This is the first report of B. quintana in the human flea.

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