Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata) as Natural Reservoir of Bartonella quintana

Shingo Sato; Hidenori Kabeya; Aika Yoshino; Wataru Sekine; Kazuo Suzuki; Hidetoshi B Tamate; Shouki Yamazaki; Bruno B Chomel; Soichi Maruyama

doi:10.3201/eid2112.150632

Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata) as Natural Reservoir of Bartonella quintana

Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Dec;21(12):2168-70. doi: 10.3201/eid2112.150632.

Authors

Shingo Sato, Hidenori Kabeya, Aika Yoshino, Wataru Sekine, Kazuo Suzuki, Hidetoshi B Tamate, Shouki Yamazaki, Bruno B Chomel, Soichi Maruyama

Abstract

Bartonella quintana bacteremia was detected in 6 (13.3%) of 45 wild-caught Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). Multilocus sequence typing of the isolates revealed that Japanese macaques were infected with a new and specific B. quintana sequence type. Free-ranging Japanese macaques thus represent another natural reservoir of B. quintana.

Keywords: Bartonella quintana; Japan; Japanese macaques; MLST; Macaca fuscata; bacteria; multilocus sequence typing; trench fever; vector-borne infections; wild macaque; zoonoses.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Bartonella quintana / genetics
Bartonella quintana / pathogenicity*
Disease Vectors*
Japan
Macaca / genetics
Macaca / microbiology*
Phylogeny
Sequence Analysis, DNA / statistics & numerical data
Trench Fever / diagnosis
Trench Fever / genetics
Trench Fever / pathology*