Table 1.

Distribution of Bartonella quintana and Yersinia pestis DNA in body and head lice collected from patients from the Rethy Health District, Democratic Republic of the Congo, April 2010

	Patients	Number of lice	Collected from	Number of lice infected by		Locality
				B. quintana	Y. pestis
	Patient 1	1	Head	0	0	Ikamea
	Patient 2	7	Head	5	0	Kanga
	Patient 3	2	Head	0	0
	Patient 4	5	Body	0	0
	Patient 5	2	Body	0	0
	Patient 6	4	Body	0	0
	Patient 7	2	Body	0	0	Kokpa
	Patient 8	4	Body	0	0
	Patient 9	1	Body	0	0
	Patient 10	7	Body	0	0
	Patient 11	2	Body	0	0
	Patient 12	1	Body	0	0
	Patient 13	2	Body	0	0
	Patient 14	3	Body	0	0
	Patient 15	1	Body	0	0
	Patient 16	4	Body	0	0
	Patient 17	5	Body	0	0
	Patient 18	3	Body	0	0
	Patient 19	2	Body	0	0
	Patient 20	2	Body	0	0
	Patient 21	2	Body	0	0
	Patient 22	5	Body	0	0
	Patient 23	4	Body	0	0
	Patient 24	3	Body	0	0
	Patient 25	12	Head	1	1
	Patient 26	3	Body	0	0
	Patient 27	19	Body	0	0
	Patient 28	9	Body	8	1
	Patient 29	1	Body	0	0
	Patient 30	1	Head	0	0	Rem
	Patient 31	1	Body	1	1
	Patient 32	2	Body	2	0	Rethy
	Patient 33	32	Body	32	0
	Patient 34	6	Body	3	0
	Patient 35	3	Head	0	0
	Patient 36	6	Body	2	0	Undokulo
	Patient 37	5	Head	0	0
Total	37	174		54	3