Prevalence of Bartonella henselae and Bartonella clarridgeiae in cats and dogs in Korea.
- Author:
You seok KIM
1
;
Kyoung won SEO
;
Jong hwa LEE
;
Eun wha CHOI
;
Hee woo LEE
;
Cheol yong HWANG
;
Nam shik SHIN
;
Hee jeong YOUN
;
Hwa young YOUN
Author Information
- Publication Type:Brief Communication ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
- Keywords: Bartonella; cats; cat-scratch disease; dogs; Korea
- MeSH: Animals; Bartonella/*classification; Bartonella Infections/blood/epidemiology/microbiology/*veterinary; Cat Diseases/blood/epidemiology/*microbiology; Cats; Disease Reservoirs/veterinary; Dog Diseases/epidemiology/*microbiology; Dogs; Hoof and Claw/microbiology; Korea/epidemiology; Prevalence; Saliva/microbiology
- From:Journal of Veterinary Science 2009;10(1):85-87
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: Blood, saliva, and nail samples were collected from 54 dogs and 151 cats and analyzed for the presence of Bartonella henselae with a novel nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method. Bartonella (B.) henselae was detected in feral cat blood (41.8%), saliva (44.1%), and nail (42.7%) samples. B. henselae was also detected in pet cat blood (33.3%), saliva (43.5%), and nail (29.5%) samples and in pet dog blood (16.6%), saliva (18.5%), and nail (29.6%) samples. Nine samples were infected with B. clarridgeiae and 2 were co-infected with B. henselae and B. clarridgeiae of blood samples of dogs. This report is the first to investigate the prevalence of B. henselae and B. clarridgeiae in dogs and cats in Korea, and suggests that dogs and cats may serve as potential Bartonella reservoirs.
