Background Species of the genus Bartonella are facultative intracellular
alphaproteobacteria with zoonotic potential. Bartonella infections in humans range from mild …

Epidemiological studies worldwide have reported a high prevalence and a great diversity of
Bartonella species, both in rodents and their flea parasites. The interaction among …

Squirrels of the World, written by scientists with more than 100 years of collective experience
studying these popular mammals, is the first comprehensive examination of all 285 species …

This book arose out of teaching graduate and undergraduate classes in wildlife diseases. It,
in some ways, chronicles my involvement in the investigation and diagnosis of diseases in …

To determine the role of Bartonella species as causes of acute febrile illness in humans from
Thailand, we used a novel strategy of co-cultivation of blood with eukaryotic cells and …

Among the 33 confirmed Bartonella species to date, more than half are hosted by rodent
species, and at least five of them have been involved in human illness causing diverse …

The application of new molecular approaches has permitted the differentiation of numerous
strains belonging to the genus Bartonella and identification of new Bartonella species …

Adaptive radiation is the rapid origination of multiple species from a single ancestor as the
result of concurrent adaptation to disparate environments. This fundamental evolutionary …

The genus Bartonella comprises facultative intracellular bacteria adapted to mammals,
including previously recognized and emerging human pathogens. We report the 2,341,328 …

Here, we describe for the first time the prevalence and genetic properties of Bartonella
organisms in wild rodents in Japan. We captured 685 wild rodents throughout Japan (in 12 …