Survey of Parasitic Bacteria in Bat Bugs, Colorado

Clifton D. McKee; Lynn M. Osikowicz; Teresa R. Schwedhelm; Ying Bai; Kevin T. Castle; Michael Y. Kosoy

doi:10.1093/jme/tjx155

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9 October 2017 Survey of Parasitic Bacteria in Bat Bugs, Colorado

Clifton D. McKee, Lynn M. Osikowicz, Teresa R. Schwedhelm, Ying Bai, Kevin T. Castle, Michael Y. Kosoy

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J. of Medical Entomology, 55(1):237-241 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjx155

Abstract

Bat bugs (Cimex adjunctus Barber) (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) collected from big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus Palisot de Beauvoir) in Colorado, United States were assessed for the presence of Bartonella, Brucella, and Yersinia spp. using molecular techniques. No evidence of Brucella or Yersinia infection was found in the 55 specimens collected; however, 4/55 (7.3%) of the specimens were positive for Bartonella DNA. Multi-locus characterization of Bartonella DNA shows that sequences in bat bugs are phylogenetically related to other Bartonella isolates and sequences from European bats.

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Entomological Society of America 2017. This work is written by (a) US Government employee(s) and is in the public domain in the US.

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Clifton D. McKee, Lynn M. Osikowicz, Teresa R. Schwedhelm, Ying Bai, Kevin T. Castle, and Michael Y. Kosoy "Survey of Parasitic Bacteria in Bat Bugs, Colorado," Journal of Medical Entomology 55(1), 237-241, (9 October 2017). https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjx155

Received: 7 April 2017; Accepted: 13 July 2017; Published: 9 October 2017

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