| zoonotic pathogens in atlantic forest wild rodents in brazil: bartonella and coxiella infections. | zoonotic pathogens comprise a significant and increasing fraction of all emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases that plague humans. identifying host species is one of the keys to controlling emerging infectious diseases. from march 2007 until april 2012, we collected a total of 131 wild rodents in eight municipalities of rio de janeiro, brazil. we investigated these rodents for infection with coxiella burnetii, bartonella spp. and rickettsia spp. in total, 22.1% (29/131) of the rodents wer ... | 2017 | 28077317 |