| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Authors: | P. - E. Fournier, Ndihokubwayo, J. B., Guidran, J., Kelly, P. J., Raoult, D. |
| Journal: | Emerging Infectious Diseases |
| Volume: | 8 |
| Issue: | 12 |
| Pagination: | 1515 - 1518 |
| Date Published: | 2002 |
| ISBN Number: | 1080-6040 |
| Keywords: | animals, Bartonella quintana/genetics/isolation & purification/pathogenicity, Crowding, Disease Outbreaks, humans, Pediculus, polymerase, Prevalence, Rickettsia prowazekii/genetics/isolation & purification/pathogenicity, trench fever, typhus |
| Abstract: | Using polymerase chain reaction and sequencing, we investigated the prevalence of Rickettsia prowazekii, Bartonella quintana, and Borrelia recurrentis in 841 body lice collected from various countries. We detected R. prowazekii in body lice from Burundi in 1997 and in lice from Burundi and Rwanda in 2001; B. quintana infections of body lice were widespread. We did not detect B. recurrentis in any lice. |
| URL: | http://phthiraptera.info/sites/phthiraptera.info/files/46022.pdf |
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