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

• Egile Nagusiak: Cara E Brook (Egilea), Ying Bai (Egilea), Andrew P Dobson (Egilea), Lynn M Osikowicz (Egilea), Hafaliana C Ranaivoson (Egilea), Qiyun Zhu (Egilea), Michael Y Kosoy (Egilea), Katharina Dittmar (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: 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...