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Longitudinal monitoring of the dynamics of infections due to Bartonella species in UK woodland rodents.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Apr 2001
Birtles R J, Hazel S M, Bennett M, Bown K, Raoult D, Begon M
Abstract excerpt
Blood samples were repeatedly collected from 12 sympatric woodland rodents over a 12-month period and DNA extracts from each were incorporated into a bartonella-specific PCR targeting a fragment of the 16S/23S rRNA intergenic spacer region (ISR). The composition of each amplicon was analysed using restriction enzyme analysis (REA) and base sequence comparison. Bartonella DNA was detected in 70 of 109 samples....
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