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Prevalence and genetic diversity of bartonella species detected in different tissues of small mammals in Nepal.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Dec 2010
Gundi Vijay A K B, Kosoy Michael Y, Myint Khin S A, Shrestha Sanjaya K, Shrestha Mrigendra P, Pavlin Julie A, Gibbons Robert V
Abstract excerpt
Bartonellae were detected in a total of 152 (23.7%) of 642 tissues from 108 (48.4%) of 223 small mammals trapped in several urban areas of Nepal. Based on rpoB and gltA sequence analyses, genotypes belonging to seven known Bartonella species and five genotypes not belonging to previously known species were identified in these animals.
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