| persistent infection or successive reinfection of deer mice with bartonella vinsonii subsp. arupensis. | bartonella infections are common in rodents. from 1994 to 2006, longitudinal studies of a rodent community, consisting mainly of deer mice (peromyscus maniculatus), were conducted in southwestern colorado to study hantaviruses. blood samples from deer mice captured one or more times during the period 2003 to 2006 (n = 737) were selected to study bartonellae in deer mice. bartonellae were found to be widely distributed in that population, with an overall prevalence of 82.4% (607/737 mice). no cor ... | 2011 | 21239553 |
| bartonella spp. dna in cardiac tissues from dogs in colorado and wyoming. | background: several bartonella species (spp.) have been identified in dogs diagnosed with infectious endocarditis (ie) or myocarditis. objective: to interrogate cardiac tissues of dogs with suspected ie for the presence of bartonella spp. dna of dogs in the rocky mountain states. animals: nine dogs with a clinical diagnosis of endocarditis from january 1990 to june 2008 were included. methods: in this retrospective study, medical records at the veterinary teaching hospital were searched. animals ... | 2011 | 21539606 |
| bartonella rochalimae and b. vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii in wild carnivores from colorado, usa. | spleen samples from 292 wild carnivores from colorado, us were screened for bartonella infection. bartonella dna was detected in coyotes ( canis latrans ) (28%), striped skunks ( mephitis mephitis ) (23%), red foxes ( vulpes vulpes ) (27%), and raccoons ( procyon lotor ) (8%) but not in black bears ( ursus americanus ), gray foxes ( urocyon cinereoargenteus ), and mountain lions ( puma concolor ). two bartonella species, b. vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii and b. rochalimae, were identified. all 10 in ... | 2016 | 27529290 |