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Rfeliset Bhenselaepucesdechatsdu Liban Mba VBZD2011
Rfeliset Bhenselaepucesdechatsdu Liban Mba VBZD2011
Rfeliset Bhenselaepucesdechatsdu Liban Mba VBZD2011
Abstract
A total of 155 fleas collected in 2009 in Lebanon from 16 cats (104 Ctenocephalides felis specimens, 1 C. canis
specimen) and 2 dogs (50 C. canis specimens) were tested for the presence of Rickettsia spp. and Bartonella spp.
using molecular methods, including real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR), regular PCR, and
sequencing of amplified PCR products. Rickettsia felis, the agent of the emerging flea-borne spotted fever in
humans, was identified in 17 (16%) C. felis cat fleas. Bartonella henselae, an agent of cat scratch disease, was
identified in three (2.9%) C. felis. Our results emphasize the potential risk of these emerging flea-borne infections
in Lebanon.
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Unité de Recherche en Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), UMR CNRS 6236-IRD UMR 198, Faculté de Médecine,
WHO Collaborative Center for Rickettsioses and Other Arthropod Borne Bacterial Diseases, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France.
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Working Group on Animal Epidemiology of the French Forces Health Service, Marseille, France.
3
Laboratoire de Parasitologie et Zoologie Appliquée, Faculté de Médecine, Rennes, France.
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