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Association of Bartonella Species with Wild and Synanthropic Rodents in Different Brazilian Biomes.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 15 Dec 2016
Gonçalves Luiz Ricardo, Favacho Alexsandra Rodrigues de Mendonça, Roque André Luiz Rodrigues, Mendes Natalia Serra, Fidelis Junior Otávio Luiz, Benevenute Jyan Lucas, Herrera Heitor Miraglia, D'Andrea Paulo Sérgio, de Lemos Elba Regina Sampaio, Machado Rosangela Zacarias, André Marcos Rogério
Abstract excerpt
Bartonella spp. comprise an ecologically successful group of microorganisms that infect erythrocytes and have adapted to different hosts, which include a wide range of mammals, besides humans. Rodents are reservoirs of about two-thirds of Bartonella spp. described to date; and some of them have been implicated as causative agents of human diseases. In our study, we performed molecular and phylogenetic analyses of...
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