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SUBMITTER: Veikkolainen V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4036794 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Veikkolainen Ville V Vesterinen Eero J EJ Lilley Thomas M TM Pulliainen Arto T AT
Emerging infectious diseases 20140601 6
A plethora of pathogenic viruses colonize bats. However, bat bacterial flora and its zoonotic threat remain ill defined. In a study initially conducted as a quantitative metagenomic analysis of the fecal bacterial flora of the Daubenton's bat in Finland, we unexpectedly detected DNA of several hemotrophic and ectoparasite-transmitted bacterial genera, including Bartonella. Bartonella spp. also were either detected or isolated from the peripheral blood of Daubenton's, northern, and whiskered bats ...[more]