Bartonella spp. in fruit bats and blood-feeding Ectoparasites in Madagascar.

• Main Authors: Cara E Brook (Author), Ying Bai (Author), Andrew P Dobson (Author), Lynn M Osikowicz (Author), Hafaliana C Ranaivoson (Author), Qiyun Zhu (Author), Michael Y Kosoy (Author), Katharina Dittmar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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We captured, ectoparasite-combed, and blood-sampled cave-roosting Madagascan fruit bats (Eidolon dupreanum) and tree-roosting Madagascan flying foxes (Pteropus rufus) in four single-species roosts within a sympatric geographic foraging range for these species in central Madagascar. We describe infec...