Bartonella clarridgeiae, B. henselae and Rickettsia felis in fleas from Morocco

N BOUDEBOUCH Laboratoire des Maladies VectoriellesInstitut Pasteur du Maroc 1, Place Louis Pasteur, 20360, Casablanca, Morocco; Université Hassan IIFaculté des sciences Ain chock, Casablanca, MoroccoCorrespondence[email protected]

M SARIH Laboratoire des Maladies VectoriellesInstitut Pasteur du Maroc 1, Place Louis Pasteur, 20360, Casablanca, Morocco

J-C BEAUCOURNUUniversité de Rennes 1, Faculté de Médecine, laboratoire de Parasitologie Médical, 2 avenue du prof Léon Bernard, 35043 Rennes, France

H AMAROUCH Université Hassan IIFaculté des sciences Ain chock, Casablanca, Morocco

M HASSAR Laboratoire des Maladies VectoriellesInstitut Pasteur du Maroc 1, Place Louis Pasteur, 20360, Casablanca, Morocco

D RAOULTUnité de Recherche en Maladies Infectieuses Emergentes Tropicales, CNRS-IRD UMR 6236, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, 27 Bd Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille Cedex 95, France

P PAROLAUnité de Recherche en Maladies Infectieuses Emergentes Tropicales, CNRS-IRD UMR 6236, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, 27 Bd Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille Cedex 95, France

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Abstract

A total of 554 fleas were collected in the Moroccan Casablanca and Tiznit regions from domesticated animals and ruminants between August 2007 and October 2008 and were tested for the presence of Rickettsia spp. and Bartonella spp. using molecular methods. For the first time in Morocco, we found Rickettsia felis, the agent of flea-borne spotted fever in Ctenocephalides felis; B. henselae, an agent of cat scratch disease; and Bartonella clarridgeiae, a cat pathogen and potentially a human pathogen.

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