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Molecular characterisation of Bartonella species in cats from São Luís, state of Maranhão, north-eastern Brazil

Overview of attention for article published in Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, September 2012
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Title
Molecular characterisation of Bartonella species in cats from São Luís, state of Maranhão, north-eastern Brazil
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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, September 2012
DOI 10.1590/s0074-02762012000600011
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Maria do Socorro Costa de Oliveira Braga, Pedro Paulo Vissotto de Paiva Diniz, Marcos Rogério André, Caroline Plácidi de Bortoli, Rosangela Zacarias Machado

Abstract

Bartonella species are fastidious bacteria that predominantly infect mammalian erythrocytes and endothelial cells and cause long-lasting bacteraemia in their reservoir hosts. Reports that describe the epidemiology of bartonellosis in Brazil are limited. This study aimed to detect and characterise Bartonella spp DNA from cat blood samples in São Luís, Maranhão, north-eastern Brazil. Among 200 cats tested for multiple genes, nine (4.5%) were positive for Bartonella spp: six cats for Bartonella henselae and three for Bartonella clarridgeiae. Based on the phylogenetic analysis of four genes, the B. henselae strain matched strains previously observed in Brazil and was positioned in the same clade as B. henselae isolates from the United States of America. Moreover, sequence alignment demonstrated that the B. clarridgeiae strain detected in the present study was the same as the one recently detected in cats from southern Brazil.

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Unknown 31 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 9 29%
Student > Bachelor 4 13%
Professor 4 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 6%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 6 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 29%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 6 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 3%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 8 26%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 October 2012.
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#16,580,157
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#971
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