Five millennia of Bartonella quintana bacteraemia.

During the two World Wars, Bartonella quintana was responsible for trench fever and is now recognised as an agent of re-emerging infection. Many reports have indicated widespread B. quintana exposure since the 1990s. In order to evaluate its prevalence in ancient populations, we used real-time PCR t...

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Main Authors: Ba-Hoang-Anh Mai, Rémi Barbieri, Thomas Chenal, Dominique Castex, Richard Jonvel, Davide Tanasi, Patrice Georges-Zimmermann, Olivier Dutour, David Peressinotto, Coralie Demangeot, Michel Drancourt, Gérard Aboudharam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239526