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PREVALENCE AND DIVERSITY OF BARTONELLA IN RODENTS OF NORTHERN THAILAND: A COMPARISON WITH BARTONELLA IN RODENTS FROM SOUTHERN CHINA

We report results of the first study to investigate the distribution and diversity of Bartonella in rodents from Thailand. Whole blood from 195 rodents, representing six species, was tested for the presence of Bartonella species using standard culture techniques. Isolates were obtained from 17 (8.7%) of the samples, and 14 of those isolates represented distinct strains, based upon partial sequencing of the citrate synthase (gltA) gene. Phylogenetic analysis of the isolates and other Bartonella species indicated that five unique isolates from Bandicota indica form a cluster that may represent a new Bartonella species. Two additional isolates from B. indica clustered together, and were nearly identical to an isolate from Apodemus draco collected in southern China. Importantly, a number of the isolates from Thailand rodents are closely related to B. grahamii and B. elizabethae, species which have been associated with human illness.

Received November 6, 2003. Accepted for publication December 14, 2003.

Acknowledgments: We thank Kiyotaka R. Tsuchiya for his help with DNA sequencing. We also thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.

Financial support: This study was supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Vector Borne Infectious Diseases, Intramural Emerging Infectious Diseases Program: "The Role of Rodent-Associated Bartonellae as Sources of Undiagnosed Illness in Humans".

Authors’ addresses: Kevin T. Castle, Michael Kosoy, Lori Phelan, and Kenneth L. Gage, Bacterial Zoonoses Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, PO Box 2087, Rampart Road, Foothills Campus, Fort Collins, CO, 80522, Telephone: 970-266-3522, Fax: 970-221-6476, E-mail: mck3{at}cdc.gov. Kriangkrai Lerdthusnee, Warisa Leepitakrat, Taweesak Monkanna, Nittaya Khlaimanee, Kirkvich Chandranoi, James W. Jones, and Russell E. Coleman, Department of Entomology, U.S. Medical Component, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, 315/6 Rajvithi Road, Phya Thai, Bangkok 10400, Thailand, Telephone 66-2-644-4888, Fax 66-2-246-8832. Bai Ying, Department of Environmental, Population and Organismic Biology and Environmental Studies Program, 334 UCB, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0334.

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