Prevalence and diversity of small mammal-associated Bartonella species in rural and urban Kenya.

• Egile Nagusiak: Jo E B Halliday (Egilea), Darryn L Knobel (Egilea), Bernard Agwanda (Egilea), Ying Bai (Egilea), Robert F Breiman (Egilea), Sarah Cleaveland (Egilea), M Kariuki Njenga (Egilea), Michael Kosoy (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...