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Rapid Communication: Experimental Infection of Domestic Cats with Bartonella henselae by Inoculation of Ctenocephalides fells (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae) Feces
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Caged cat fleas, Ctenocephalides felis (Bouché), were fed on 6 cats; 3 cats were injected with 5 x 10(7) colony forming units of Bartonella henselae intradermally and 3 cats were injected with an equal volume of saline. After the fleas fed for 4 d, 5 groups of 50 B. henselae-exposed fleas were caged and allowed to feed on 5 cats for 6 d. Five cats each were injected intradermally with 1 ml of saline containing 45 mg of feces from B. henselae-exposed fleas. Five cats were fed 50 B. henselae-exposed fleas and 45 mg of fresh feces from B. henselae-exposed fleas. Five cats received all 3 treatments by using fleas and feces collected from cats inoculated with saline (controls). Cats were bled weekly and tested by culture and serology. The cats that were injected with feces from infected fleas were positive by culture for B. henselae at 1 or 2 wk after exposure and were the only cats to become bacteremic or seropositive by week 20.
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“Infection of cats by bites of infected fleas has been experimentally demonstrated, although not considered a primary route of transmission [30,44,45].”
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“Fleas of pets are capable of harboring Bartonella spp. and it seems plausible that C. felis transmits B. henselae actively.”
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“The human infection by flea-borne Bartonella spp. generally occurs via scratches of infected cats, whilst flea bites do not seem to play a key role in the epidemiology of human bartonellosis.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Foil, L., Andress, E., Freeland, R. L., Roy, A. F., Rutledge, R., Triche, P. C., & O'Reilly, K. L.
- Affiliations
- Louisiana State University (US)
- ORCID
- Foil, Lane
- Venue
- Journal of Medical Entomology
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1998-09-01
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 625-628
- ISSN
- 0022-2585 (ISSN-L)
- 1938-2928
- OpenAlex
- W2409724360
- Cited by
- 197
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 4.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Medical Entomology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Civil War Book Review (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (1r15ai039720-01)
- Agricultural Center, Louisiana State University
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (1 R15 AI39720-01)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › Bartonella species infections research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Parasitology › Vector-borne infectious diseases
- Keywords
- Bartonella henselae, cats, Ctenocephalides felis, flea-borne transmission, experimental infection, bacteremia, seropositivity
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Cat-Scratch Disease, Cats, Feces, Siphonaptera, Insect Vectors, Bartonella henselae
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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