Thank You Poland!!! PCR characterisation suggests an unusual range of Bartonella species infect the striped field mouse Apodemus agrarius in Central Europe. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23747696 Appl Environ Microbiol. 2013 Jun 7. [Epub ahead of print] Hildebrand J, Paziewska-Harris A, Zalesny G, Harris PD. Source Department of Parasitology, Institute of Genetics and Microbiology, Wroclaw University, Przybyszewskiego 63, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland. Abstract Blood samples from Apodemus agrarius from Poland yielded PCR-amplicons of Bartonella species. These included B. grahamii, B. taylorii and B. birtlesii, as is typical of European Apodemus, as well as B. elizabethae-like forms and a recombinant strain of B. taylorii, most closely related to an american isolate from Tamiasciurus hudsonicus.
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