Prevalence of Bartonella quintana in patients with fever and head lice from rural areas of Sine-Saloum, Senegal

Georges Diatta; Oleg Mediannikov; Cheikh Sokhna; Hubert Bassene; Cristina Socolovschi; Pavel Ratmanov; Florence Fenollar; Didier Raoult

doi:10.4269/ajtmh.13-0685

Prevalence of Bartonella quintana in patients with fever and head lice from rural areas of Sine-Saloum, Senegal

Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014 Aug;91(2):291-3. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.13-0685. Epub 2014 May 5.

Authors

Georges Diatta¹, Oleg Mediannikov², Cheikh Sokhna², Hubert Bassene², Cristina Socolovschi², Pavel Ratmanov², Florence Fenollar², Didier Raoult²

Affiliations

¹ Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR 198), IRD, Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE) de Dakar, Campus Commun IRD-Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD) of Hann, Dakar, Senegal; Aix Marseille Université, URMITE, Unité Mixte 63 (UM 63), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 7278, IRD 198, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) 1095, Marseille, France [email protected].
² Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR 198), IRD, Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE) de Dakar, Campus Commun IRD-Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD) of Hann, Dakar, Senegal; Aix Marseille Université, URMITE, Unité Mixte 63 (UM 63), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 7278, IRD 198, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) 1095, Marseille, France.

Abstract

Trench fever is poorly known by the staff of health facilities that manage febrile patients in Senegal. Bartonella quintana DNA was identified in 5 of 274 (2%) febrile patients from two rural dispensaries and 2 of 71 (3%) head lice specimens collected from the same villages.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Animals
Bacterial Typing Techniques
Bartonella quintana / genetics
Bartonella quintana / isolation & purification*
Child
Child, Preschool
Coinfection
DNA, Bacterial / genetics
DNA, Bacterial / isolation & purification*
Female
Humans
Lice Infestations / epidemiology*
Lice Infestations / parasitology
Male
Middle Aged
Pediculus / anatomy & histology*
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Prevalence
Rural Population
Senegal / epidemiology
Trench Fever / epidemiology*
Trench Fever / microbiology

Substances

DNA, Bacterial