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Bartonella prevalence and genetic diversity in small mammals from Ethiopia.
Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) - 1 Mar 2013
Meheretu Yonas, Leirs Herwig, Welegerima Kiros, Breno Matteo, Tomas Zewdneh, Kidane Dawit, Girmay Kokob, de Bellocq Joëlle Goüy
Abstract excerpt
More than 500 small mammals were trapped at 3 localities in northern Ethiopia to investigate Bartonella infection prevalence and the genetic diversity of the Bartonella spp. We extracted total DNA from liver samples and performed PCR using the primers 1400F and 2300R targeting 852 bp of the Bartonella RNA polymerase beta subunit (rpoB) gene. We used a generalized linear mixed model to relate the probability of...
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