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Francesca Arcuri

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Serological and Molecular Evidence of Bartonella henselae in Stray Cats from Southern Italy

2021

Bartonella henselae is a slow growing and facultative intracellular pathogen mainly transmitted by arthropod vectors adapted to domestic and wild mammalian reservoir hosts. Since cats are the major source of the B. henselae infection, this study aimed to evaluate the seroprevalence and the DNA presence in randomly sampled stray cats. Blood samples of 429 cats were collected from shelter of Palermo (Southern Italy) and sera and whole blood were analyzed for the presence of antibodies against B. henselae by indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) and by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), respectively. Two hundred and three sera (47.3%) were positive to IFA and 148 blood samples (34.5%…

0301 basic medicineMicrobiology (medical)040301 veterinary sciencesQH301-705.5Microbiologylaw.inventionSerology<i>Bartonella henselae</i>0403 veterinary science03 medical and health scienceslawVirologySeroprevalenceBiology (General)PathogenPolymerase chain reactionBartonella henselaeCATSbiologyseroprevalencecats04 agricultural and veterinary sciencesbiology.organism_classificationVirology030104 developmental biologyReal-time polymerase chain reactionbiology.proteinAntibodyreal-time PCRMicroorganisms
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