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Isolation of Bartonella schoenbuchensis from Lipoptena cervi, a blood-sucking arthropod causing deer ked dermatitis.

Dehio C, Sauder U, Hiestand R

Division of Molecular Microbiology, Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Klingelbergstr. 70, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland. christoph.dehio@unibas.ch

Bartonella schoenbuchensis, which commonly causes bacteremia in ruminants, was isolated from the deer ked Lipoptena cervi and was shown to localize to the midgut of this blood-sucking arthropod, causing deer ked dermatitis in humans. The role of B. schoenbuchensis in the etiology of deer ked dermatitis should be further investigated.

Published 5 November 2004 in J Clin Microbiol, 42(11): 5320-3.
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