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Molecular detection of Bartonella henselae DNA in the dental pulp of 800-year-old French cats.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Nov 2004
La Vu Dang, Clavel Benoît, Lepetz Sébastien, Aboudharam Gérard, Raoult Didier, Drancourt Michel
Abstract excerpt
Bartonella species are responsible for chronic bacteremia in domestic cats, which raises a question about the antiquity of the relationship between Bartonella species and cats that act as reservoirs for the organism. The sequencing of Bartonella pap31 and groEL genes from the dental pulp of cats dating from the 13th to 16th centuries identified the presence of B. henselae genotype Houston; the observation of a...
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