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Population structure of Bartonella henselae in Algerian urban stray cats.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Azzag Naouelle, Haddad Nadia, Durand Benoit, Petit Elisabeth, Ammouche Ali, Chomel Bruno, Boulouis Henri-Jean
Abstract excerpt
Whole blood samples from 211 stray cats from Algiers, Algeria, were cultured to detect the presence of Bartonella species and to evaluate the genetic diversity of B. henselae strains by multiple locus VNTR analysis (MLVA). Bartonella henselae was the only species isolated from 36 (17%) of 211 cat...
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