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Metagenomics of culture isolates and insect tissue illuminate the evolution of <i>Wolbachia</i> , <i>Rickettsia</i> and <i>Bartonella</i> symbionts in <i>Ctenocephalides</i> spp. fleas
2023-02-06
Abstract excerpt
While fleas are often perceived simply as a biting nuisance and cause of allergic dermatitis, they represent important disease vectors worldwide, especially for bacterial zoonoses such as plague (transmitted by rodent fleas) and some of the rickettsioses and bartonelloses. The cosmopolitan cat ( Ctenocephalides felis ) and dog ( C. canis ) fleas, as well as C. orientis (restricted to tropical and subtropical As...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 78aad9ff-a63a-5a1f-a1f2-1073969df5b7
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.02.06.527313
