| flea-borne bartonella grahamii and bartonella taylorii in bank voles. | bartonella species are increasingly associated with a range of human and animal diseases. despite this, we have a poor understanding of the ecology and epidemiology of many species, especially those circulating in wild populations. previous studies have demonstrated that a diverse range of bartonella species are abundant in wild rodent populations; little is known regarding their modes of transmission, although both direct and indirect routes have been suggested. in this study, with bank voles ( ... | 2004 | 15200860 |
| bartonella, rodents, fleas and ticks: a molecular field study on host-vector-pathogen associations in saxony, eastern germany. | bartonellae cause zoonotic diseases and are transmitted by arthropods. rodents are reservoirs for most bartonella spp. as the knowledge about bartonella in rodents and their parasitizing ectoparasites is scarce in germany, this study's objectives were to investigate bartonella spp. in small mammals and in their ectoparasites. a total of 79 small mammals (seven species) were captured and their ectoparasites collected at seven sites around leipzig, saxony, germany, in 2010 and 2011. altogether, 79 ... | 2016 | 27220973 |
| 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 |
| disruption of a host-parasite system following the introduction of an exotic host species. | the potential of biological invasions to threaten native ecosystems is well recognized. here we describe how an introduced species impacts on native host-parasite dynamics by acting as an alternative host. by sampling sites across an invasion front in ireland, we quantified the influence of the introduced bank vole (clethrionomys glareolus) on the epidemiology of infections caused by flea-transmitted haemoparasites of the genus bartonella in native wood mice (apodemus sylvaticus). bartonella inf ... | 2005 | 15977903 |