<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ricardo Gutierrez</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cohen, Liron</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Morick, Danny</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Harrus, Shimon</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gottlieb, Yuval</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Identification of Different &lt;i&gt;Bartonella&lt;/i&gt; Species in the Cattle Tail Louse (&lt;i&gt;Haematopinus quadripertusus&lt;/i&gt;) and in Cattle Blood</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Applied and Environmental Microbiology</style></secondary-title><short-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Applied and Environmental Microbiology</style></short-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;i&gt;Bartonella&lt;/i&gt;sp.</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">cattle</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nov-18-2014</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://phthiraptera.info/sites/phthiraptera.info/files/68946.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">80</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">5477 - 5483</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Bartonella spp. are worldwide-distributed facultative intracellular bacteria that exhibit an immense genomic diversity across&amp;nbsp;mammal and arthropod hosts. The occurrence of cattle-associated Bartonella species was investigated in the cattle tail louse&amp;nbsp;Haematopinus quadripertusus and in dairy cattle blood from Israel. Lice were collected from cattle from two dairy farms during&amp;nbsp;summer 2011, and both lice and cow blood samples were collected from additional seven farms during the successive winter. The&amp;nbsp;lice were identified morphologically and molecularly using 18S rRNA sequencing. Thereafter, they were screened for Bartonella&amp;nbsp;DNA by conventional and real-time PCR assays using four partial genetic loci (gltA, rpoB, ssrA, and internal transcribed spacer&amp;nbsp;[ITS]). A potentially novel Bartonella variant, closely related to other ruminant bartonellae, was identified in 11 of 13 louse pools&amp;nbsp;collected in summer. In the cattle blood, the prevalence of Bartonella infection was 38%, identified as B. bovis and B. henselae&amp;nbsp;(24 and 12%, respectively). A third genotype, closely related to Bartonella melophagi and Bartonella chomelii (based on the ssrA&amp;nbsp;gene) and to B. bovis (based on the ITS sequence) was identified in a single cow. The relatively high prevalence of these Bartonella&amp;nbsp;species in cattle and the occurrence of &amp;nbsp;hylogenetically diverse Bartonella variants in both cattle and their lice suggest the&amp;nbsp;potential role of this animal system in the generation of Bartonella species diversity.&lt;/p&gt;
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