Prevalence and Diversity of Small Mammal-Associated Bartonella Species in Rural and Urban Kenya

Several rodent-associated Bartonella species are human pathogens but little is known about their epidemiology. We trapped rodents and shrews around human habitations at two sites in Kenya (rural Asembo and urban Kibera) to determine the prevalence of Bartonella infection. Bartonella were detected by...

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Main Authors: Halliday, Jo E. B., Knobel, Darryn L., Agwanda, Bernard, Bai, Ying, Breiman, Robert F., Cleaveland, Sarah, Njenga, M. Kariuki, Kosoy, Michael
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4362764/