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

Triatominae bugs are the vectors of Chagas disease, a major concern to public health
especially in Latin America, where vector-borne Chagas disease has undergone …

We here present annotated lists of names of Candidatus taxa of prokaryotes with ranks
between subspecies and class, proposed between the mid-1990s, when the provisional …

Infections with Bartonella bacilliformis result in Carrion's disease in humans. In the first
phase of infection, the pathogen causes a hemolytic fever (“Oroya fever”) with case-fatality …

Carrion's disease (CD) is a neglected biphasic vector-borne illness related to Bartonella
bacilliformis. It is found in the Andean valleys and is transmitted mainly by members of the …

Bats are notorious reservoirs of several zoonotic diseases and may be uniquely tolerant of
infection among mammals. Broad sampling has revealed the importance of bats in the …

Arthropods are small invertebrate animals, among which some species are hematophagous.
It is during their blood meal that they can transmit pathogenic microorganisms that they may …

Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) has recently
emerged as an alternative to morphological and molecular tools to identify tick species. In …

Background In Peru, the information regarding sand fly vectors of leishmaniasis and
bartonellosis in the Amazon region is limited. In this study, we carried out sand fly collections …

Bartonella spp. are opportunistic, vectorborne bacteria that can cause disease in both
animals and humans. We investigated the molecular occurrence of Bartonella spp. in 634 …