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High Prevalence of Rodent-Borne Bartonella spp. in Urbanizing Environments in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo
Kim R. Blasdell
Kim R. Blasdell
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Geelong, Australia;
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Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Malaysia;
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Rodents are the most prominent animal host of Bartonella spp., which are associated with an increasing number of human diseases worldwide. Many rodent species thrive in urban environments and live in close contact with people, which can lead to an increased human risk of infection from rodent-borne pathogens. In this study, we explored the prevalence and distribution of Bartonella spp. in rodents in urban, developing, and rural environments surrounding a growing city in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. We found that although Bartonella spp. infection was pervasive in most rodent species sampled, prevalence was highest in urban areas and infection was most commonly detected in the predominant indigenous rodent species sampled (Sundamys muelleri). Within the urban environment, parks and remnant green patches were significantly associated with the presence of both S. muelleri and Bartonella spp., indicating higher localized risk of infection for people using these environments for farming, foraging, or recreation.
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Authors’ addresses: Kim R. Blasdell, Health and Biosecurity Business Unit, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Geelong, Australia, E-mail: kim.blasdell@csiro.au. David Perera, The Institute of Health and Community Medicine, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Malaysia, E-mail: dperera@unimas.my. Cadhla Firth, School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, E-mail: cadhla.firth@unimelbourne.edu.au.
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Buffet JP, Kosoy M, Vayssier-Taussat M, 2013. Natural history of Bartonella-infecting rodents in light of new knowledge on genomics, diversity and evolution. Future Microbiol 8: 1117–1128.
-
2.
Regier Y, O’Rourke F, Kempf VAJ, 2016. Bartonella spp.—a chance to establish one health concepts in veterinary and human medicine. Parasit Vectors 9: 261.
-
3.
Lei BR, Olival KJ, 2014. Contrastig patterns in mammal-bacteria coevolution: Bartonella and Leptospira in bats and rodents. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 8: e2738.
-
4.
Kosoy M, McKee C, Albayrak L, Fofanov Y, 2017. Genotyping of Bartonella bacteria and their animal hosts: current status and perspectives. Parasitology 145: 543–562.
-
5.
Maggi RG, Mozayeni BR, Pultorak EL, Hegarty BC, Bradley JM, Correa M, Breitschwerdt EB, 2012. Bartonella spp. bacteremia and rheumatic symptoms in patients from lyme disease-endemic region. Emerg Infect Dis 18: 783–791.
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6.
Robins JH, Hingston M, Matisoo-Smith E, Ross HA, 2007. Identifying Rattus species using mitochondrial DNA. Mol Ecol Notes 7: 717–729.
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7.
Pages M, Chaval Y, Herbreteau V, Waengsothorn S, Cosson J-F, Hugot J-P, Morand S, Michaux J, 2010. Revisiting the taxonomy of the Rattini tribe: a phylogeny-based delimitation of species boundaries. BMC Evol Biol 10: 184.
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8.
Pagès M, Bazin E, Galan M, Chaval Y, Claude J, Herbreteau V, Michaux J, Piry S, Morand S, Cosson JF, 2013. Cytonuclear discordance among southeast Asian black rats (Rattus rattus complex). Mol Ecol 22: 1019–1034.
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9.
Norman AF, Regnery R, Jameson P, Greene C, Krause DC, 1995. Differentiation of Bartonella-like isolates at the species level by PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism in the citrate synthase gene. J Clin Microbiol 33: 1797–1803.
-
10.
Billeter SA, Gundi VA, Rood MP, Kosoy MY, 2011. Molecular detection and identification of Bartonella species in Xenopsylla cheopis fleas (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae) collected from Rattus norvegicus rats in Los Angeles, California. Appl Environ Microbiol 77: 7850–7852.
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11.
Kearse M, Moir R, Wilson A, Stones-Havas S, Cheung M, Sturrock S, 2012. Geneious basic: an integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data. Bioinformatics 28: 1647–1649.
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12.
Guindon S, Dufayard JF, Lefort V, Anisimova M, Hordiik W, Gascuel O, 2010. New algorithms and methods to estimate maximum‐likelihood phylogenies: assessing the performance of PhyML 3.0. Syst Biol 59: 307–321.
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13.
La Scola B, Zeaiter Z, Khamis A, Raoult D, 2003. Gene-sequence-based criteria for species definition in bacteriology: the Bartonella paradigm. Trends Microbiol 11: 318–321.
-
14.
Kosoy M et al. 2010. Identification of Bartonella infections in febrile human patients from Thailand and their potential animal reservoirs. Am J Trop Med Hyg 82: 1140–1145.
-
15.
Tay ST, Mokhtar AS, Zain SNM, Low KC, 2014. Short report: isolation and molecular identification of Bartonellae from wild rats (Rattus species) in Malaysia. Am J Trop Med Hyg 90: 1039–1042.
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16.
Jiyipong T, Morand S, Jittapalapong S, Rolain J-M, 2015. Bartonella spp. infections in rodents of Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Thailand: identifying risky habitats. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 15:48–55.
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17.
Peterson AC et al. 2017. Rodent-borne Bartonella infection varies according to host species within and among cities. EcoHealth 14: 771–782.
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