| isolation of histoplasma capsulatum from tissues of bats captured in the aguas buenas caves, aguas buenos, puerto rico. | of 30 bats belonging to four species, only one species, brachyplylla cavernarum, yielded positive for histoplasma capsulatum. bats were collected at the aguas buenas caves in puerto rico. the other species are: artibeus jamaicensis, monophyllus redmani portoricensis, and erophylla bibombifrons; these resulted negative for the fungus. | 1977 | 865600 |
| bartonella spp. in a puerto rican bat community. | we captured and sampled 68 bats of six species from a shared roosting site in puerto rico in april 2012. bats were screened for bartonella spp. by culture and confirmed by pcr and sequencing for the glta gene. bartonella cultures were obtained from blood specimens of 9/51 (18%) individuals from three species (artibeus jamaicensis, brachyphylla cavernarum, and monophyllus redmani). phylogenetic analysis of the glta sequences showed that m. redmani was infected with multiple, diverse bartonella st ... | 2015 | 25380361 |