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SUBMITTER: La VD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3320506 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
La Vu Dang VD Tran-Hung Lam L Aboudharam Gérard G Raoult Didier D Drancourt Michel M
Emerging infectious diseases 20050801 8
We recovered Bartonella quintana DNA from dental pulp of a domestic cat. This study, the first to detect B. quintana in a nonhuman mammal, changes our understanding of the epidemiology of this infection and proposes that cats may be an emerging source of human infection. ...[more]