| molecular detection of bartonella species infecting rodents in slovenia. | rodents, collected in three zoogeographical regions across slovenia, were tested for the presence of bartonellae using direct pcr-based amplification of 16s/23s rrna gene intergenic spacer region (its) fragments from splenic dna extracts. bartonella dna was detected in four species of rodents, apodemus flavicollis, apodemus sylvaticus, apodemus agrarius and clethrionomys glareolus, in all three zoogeographic regions at an overall prevalence of 40.4%. the prevalence of infection varied significan ... | 2007 | 17374132 |