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Bartonella spp. isolated from wild and domestic ruminants in North America
C C Chang1, B B Chomel, R W Kasten
1School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|May 29, 2000
Abstract:
Bartonella species were isolated from 49% of 128 cattle from California and Oklahoma, 90% of 42 mule deer from California, and 15% of 100 elk from California and Oregon. Isolates from all 63 cattle, 14 deer, and 1 elk had the same polymerase chain reaction/restriction fragment length polymorphism profiles. Our findings indicate potential for inter- and intraspecies transmission among ruminants, as well as risk that these Bartonella spp. could act as zoonotic agents.