Prevalence of Bartonella spp. by culture, PCR and serology, in veterinary personnel from Spain
Abstract Background The genus Bartonella includes fastidious, facultative intracellular bacteria mainly transmitted by arthropods and distributed among mammalian reservoirs.Bartonella spp.implicated as etiological agents of zoonoses are increasing.Apart from the classical Bartonella henselae, B.bacilliformis or B.quintana, other species (B.elizabet