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Bartonella quintana and Rickettsia felis in Gabon |
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| Authors: | Rolain Jean-Marc Bourry Olivier Davoust Bernard Raoult Didier |
| Institution: | Ricksettias Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Université de la Méditerranée, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille CEDEX 5, France. |
| 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. |
| Keywords: | Bartonella quintana fleas monkey primates Rickettsia felis Gabon dispatch |
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