| diversity of bartonella species detected in arthropod vectors from animals in australia. | a variety of bartonella species were detected in two species of ticks and three species of fleas collected from marsupial hosts; brush-tailed bettong or woylie (bettongia penicillata) and western barred bandicoots (perameles bougainville) and from a rodent host; rattus fuscipes in western australia. bartonella species were detected using nested-pcr of the glta gene and the 16s-23s ribosomal internal transcribed spacer region (its), and species were characterized using dna sequencing of the 16s r ... | 2011 | 21862131 |