Table 3.
Bartonella species in small mammals from Germany and the Czech Republic
| Small mammal family/ speciesa | No. of Bartonella DNA positive samples (%) | No. of Bartonella-positive samples selected for sequencing | No. of Bartonella species-positive samples | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B. sp. N40 | B. grahamii | B. taylorii | B. doshiae | B. uncultured | |||
| Muridae | |||||||
| Apodemus agrarius | 2 (100) | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | – |
| Apodemus flavicollis | 36 (75.0) | 13 | 2 | 3 | 2 | - | 6 |
| Apodemus sylvaticus | 4 (66.7) | 3 | – | 3 | – | – | – |
| Cricetidaea | |||||||
| Microtus arvalis | 115 (74.7) | 46 | 2 | 1b | 4 | 10 | 29 |
| Myodes glareolus | 35 (44.9) | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | – | – |
| Soricidaea | |||||||
| Sorex araneus | 19 (63.3) | 5 | – | – | 5 | – | – |
| Sorex coronatus | 5 (71.4) | 4 | – | – | 4 | – | – |
| Total | 216 (66.1) | 84 | 7 | 11 | 21 | 10 | 35 |
aMicrotus agrestis (n = 1) and Sorex minutus (n = 1) were negative for Bartonella spp. DNA (see Table 1) and therefore not included in this table
bDetected only in 1 out of 1 individual from Germany