| Genetic characterization of flea-derived Bartonella species from native animals in Australia suggests host-parasite co-evolution. | Fleas are important arthropod vectors for a variety of diseases in veterinary and human medicine, and bacteria belonging to the genus Bartonella are among the organisms most commonly transmitted by these ectoparasites. Recently, a number of novel Bartonella species and novel species candidates have been reported in marsupial fleas in Australia. In the present study the genetic diversity of marsupial fleas was investigated; 10 species of fleas were collected from seven different marsupial and pla ... | 2011 | 21856444 |
| Coxiella burnetii in Western Barred Bandicoots (Perameles bougainville) from Bernier and Dorre Islands in Western Australia. | The aim of this work is to investigate the presence of Coxiella burnetii in Perameles bougainville and their ticks on two islands off Western Australia. Haemaphysalis humerosa, Haemaphysalis ratti, and Haemaphysalis lagostrophi were collected from P. bougainville on Bernier and Dorre Islands from 2005 to 2007; only Amblyomma limbatum was collected from humans over the same interval. One of 13 tick samples and 1 of 12 P. bougainville fecal samples were positive for C. burnetii DNA using quantitat ... | 2011 | 22167449 |
| 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 |
| ocular chlamydiales infections of western barred bandicoots (perameles bougainville) in western australia. | the western barred bandicoot (perameles bougainville) is an endangered species, free ranging on only two islands off the coast of western australia (dorre and bernier islands). conservation efforts are currently directed at reintroducing these marsupials into predator-proof enclosures and habitats in historical distribution ranges on the mainland in the southwest of western australia and in south australia. in september 2000, 19 western barred bandicoots were captured on bernier island for trans ... | 2005 | 17315464 |
| hematologic characteristics of captive western barred bandicoots (perameles bougainville) from western australia. | the western barred bandicoot (perameles bougainville) is an australian marsupial species now considered endangered as a consequence of habitat destruction and predation. a recently discovered papillomatosis syndrome is hindering efforts to repopulate this species. hematology reference intervals have been lacking for p bougainville, preventing optimal interpretation of hematology results from wart-affected and clinically normal animals. | 2007 | 18041700 |
| prevalence, emergence, and factors associated with a viral papillomatosis and carcinomatosis syndrome in wild, reintroduced, and captive western barred bandicoots (perameles bougainville). | once widespread across western and southern australia, wild populations of the western barred bandicoot (wbb) are now only found on bernier and dorre islands, western australia. conservation efforts to prevent the extinction of the wbb are presently hampered by a papillomatosis and carcinomatosis syndrome identified in captive and wild bandicoots, associated with infection with the bandicoot papillomatosis carcinomatosis virus type 1 (bpcv1). this study examined the prevalence and distribution o ... | 2009 | 19898897 |
| a new eimeria species parasitic in western barred bandicoots, perameles bougainville (marsupialia: peramelidae), in western australia. | feces from western barred bandicoots, perameles bougainville, examined during routine monitoring of captive breeding colonies and wild populations were frequently found to contain oocysts. fecal oocysts from 1 individual housed at kanyana wildlife rehabilitation centre were allowed to sporulate in 2% potassium dichromate (k2cr2o7) at room temperature. sporulated oocysts are subspheroidal 18.8 x 17.9 (16.9-21.0 x 16.0-19.9) microm, with length/width (l/w) ratio of 1.05 (1.00-1.15), lack a micropy ... | 2006 | 17304809 |
| genomic characterization of a novel virus found in papillomatous lesions from a southern brown bandicoot (isoodon obesulus) in western australia. | the genome of a novel virus, tentatively named bandicoot papillomatosis carcinomatosis virus type 2 (bpcv2), obtained from multicentric papillomatous lesions from an adult male southern brown bandicoot (isoodon obesulus) was sequenced in its entirety. bpcv2 had a circular double-stranded dna genome consisting of 7277 bp and open reading frames encoding putative l1 and l2 structural proteins and putative large t antigen and small t antigen transforming proteins. these genomic features, intermedia ... | 2008 | 18440042 |
| klossiella quimrensis (apicomplexa: klossiellidae) causes renal coccidiosis in western barred bandicoots perameles bougainville (marsupialia: peramelidae) in western australia. | previous studies have described a range of klossiella species parasitic in marsupial hosts. klossiella quimrensis is the etiologic agent of renal coccidiosis in the peramelid marsupial hosts isoodon obesulus and perameles gunnii in eastern australia, but there is no previous report of klossiellosis in western australian peramelids. this study describes klossiellosis diagnosed by histology of renal tissue sections collected during necropsy of 20 perameles bougainville between 2000 and 2005. sporo ... | 2007 | 17436946 |