| Literature DB >> 11179366 |
P E Fournier1, M F Minnick, H Lepidi, E Salvo, D Raoult.
Abstract
A laboratory colony of human body lice was experimentally infected by feeding on rabbits made artificially bacteremic with a green fluorescent protein-expressing Bartonella quintana. B. quintana was detected in the gut and feces until death but not in the eggs. The life span of the lice was not modified. The rabbit model should provide valuable clues to the role of lice in the transmission of B. quintana.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID: 11179366 PMCID: PMC98095 DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.3.1876-1879.2001
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infect Immun ISSN: 0019-9567 Impact factor: 3.441