Table 2. Detection of Bartonella DNA from fleas collected on Rattus rattus from different seasons and locality types.
| Family | Specie of flea | Total of fleas analyzed by seasons | Total of fleas analyzed by type of locality | Number of fleas positive for gene fragment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer | Winter | City | Village | Reserve | gltA | rpoB | ||
| Pulicidae | Xenopsylla cheopis | 0 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 7 (63.6) | 5 (45.5) |
| Leptopsyllidae | Leptopsylla segnis | 22 | 33 | 19 | 36 | 0 | 19 (34.5) | 15 (27.3) |
| Ceratophyllidae | Nosopsyllus fasciatus | 19 | 26 | 33 | 12 | 0 | 4 (8.9) | 4 (8.9) |
| Hectopsyllidae | Hectopsylla sp. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 (100) | 2 (66.7) |
| Hystrichopsyllidae | Ctenoparia inopinata | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ctenoparia jordani | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Neotyphloceras sp. | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 (25.0) | |
| Neotyphloceras chilensis | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 (50.0) | 1 (50.0) | |
| Neotyphloceras pardinasi | 14 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 1 (4.3) | 3 (13.0) | |
| Rhopalopsyllidae | Delostichus coxalis | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 (16.7) |
| Delostichus smiti | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tetrapsyllus rhombus | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 (33.3) | 0 | |
| Stephanocircidae | Plocopsylla sp. | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Plocopsylla wolffsohni | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sphinctopsylla ares | 3 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 1 (6.2) | 2 (12.5) | |
| Total | 75 | 99 | 81 | 66 | 27 | 37 (21.2) | 34 (19.5) | |