Flea-borne pathogens in the cat flea Ctenocephalides felis and their association with the mtDNA diversity of the flea hosts
Flea-borne pathogens were screened from 100 individual cat fleas using a PCR approach, of which 38 % were infected with at least one bacterium. Overall, 28 % of the flea samples were positive for Bartonella as inferred from ITS DNA region. Of these, 25 % (7/28) were identified as Bartonella clarridg...
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Elsevier
2021
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/97357/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/97357/1/ABSTRACT.pdf |