Prevalence of Bartonella henselae and Bartonella clarridgeiae in cats and dogs in Korea |
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| Authors: | You-seok Kim Kyoung-won Seo Jong-hwa Lee Eun-wha Choi Hee-woo Lee Cheol-yong Hwang Nam-shik Shin Hee-jeong Youn Hwa young Youn |
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| Institution: | 1Department of Veterinary Internal Medicine and BK21 Program for Veterinary Science, College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea.;2KRF Priority Zoonotic Disease Research Institute, College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea.;3Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul 135-710, Korea. |
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| Abstract: | Blood, saliva, and nail samples were collected from 54 dogs and 151 cats and analyzed for the presence of Bartonella henselae with a novel nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method. Bartonella (B.) henselae was detected in feral cat blood (41.8%), saliva (44.1%), and nail (42.7%) samples. B. henselae was also detected in pet cat blood (33.3%), saliva (43.5%), and nail (29.5%) samples and in pet dog blood (16.6%), saliva (18.5%), and nail (29.6%) samples. Nine samples were infected with B. clarridgeiae and 2 were co-infected with B. henselae and B. clarridgeiae of blood samples of dogs. This report is the first to investigate the prevalence of B. henselae and B. clarridgeiae in dogs and cats in Korea, and suggests that dogs and cats may serve as potential Bartonella reservoirs. |
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| Keywords: | Bartonella cats cat-scratch disease dogs Korea |
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