TY - JOUR
T1 - Human exposure to novel bartonella species from contact with fruit bats
AU - Idanre Bat Festival Investigation Team
AU - Bai, Ying
AU - Osinubi, Modupe O.V.
AU - Osikowicz, Lynn
AU - McKee, Clifton
AU - Vora, Neil M.
AU - Rizzo, Maria Rosales
AU - Recuenco, Sergio
AU - Davis, Lora
AU - Niezgoda, Mike
AU - Ehimiyein, Ajoke M.
AU - Kia, Grace S.N.
AU - Oyemakinde, Akin
AU - Adeniyi, Olufunmilayo Sanni
AU - Gbadegesin, Yemi H.
AU - Saliman, Olugbon A.
AU - Ogunniyi, Abiodun
AU - Ogunkoya, Albert B.
AU - Kosoy, Michael Y.
AU - Kuzmin, Ivan V.
AU - Blau, Dianna
AU - Ellison, James
AU - Greenberg, Lauren
AU - Person, Marissa
AU - Wallace, Ryan
AU - Satheshkumar, Panayampalli S.
AU - Aman-Oloniyo, Abimbola
AU - Adedire, Elizabeth B.
AU - Soleye, Mariat O.
AU - Okara, Gloria C.
AU - Yennan, Sebastian
AU - Abdurrahman, Mohammed
AU - Sani, Munir A.
AU - Audu, Solomon W.
AU - Lawal, Maruf
AU - Mshelbwala, Philip P.
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PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - Twice a year in southwestern Nigeria, during a traditional bat festival, community participants enter designated caves to capture bats, which are then consumed for food or traded. We investigated the presence of Bartonella species in Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) and bat flies (Eucampsipoda africana) from these caves and assessed whether Bartonella infections had occurred in persons from the surrounding communities. Our results indicate that these bats and flies harbor Bartonella strains, which multilocus sequence typing indicated probably represent a novel Bartonella species, proposed as Bartonella rousetti. In serum from 8 of 204 persons, we detected antibodies to B. rousetti without cross-reactivity to other Bartonella species. This work suggests that bat-associated Bartonella strains might be capable of infecting humans.
AB - Twice a year in southwestern Nigeria, during a traditional bat festival, community participants enter designated caves to capture bats, which are then consumed for food or traded. We investigated the presence of Bartonella species in Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) and bat flies (Eucampsipoda africana) from these caves and assessed whether Bartonella infections had occurred in persons from the surrounding communities. Our results indicate that these bats and flies harbor Bartonella strains, which multilocus sequence typing indicated probably represent a novel Bartonella species, proposed as Bartonella rousetti. In serum from 8 of 204 persons, we detected antibodies to B. rousetti without cross-reactivity to other Bartonella species. This work suggests that bat-associated Bartonella strains might be capable of infecting humans.
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U2 - 10.3201/eid2412.181204
DO - 10.3201/eid2412.181204
M3 - Article
C2 - 30457529
AN - SCOPUS:85056709711
SN - 1080-6040
VL - 24
SP - 2317
EP - 2323
JO - Emerging infectious diseases
JF - Emerging infectious diseases
IS - 12
ER -