Bartonella quintana transmitted by head lice: an outbreak of trench fever in Senegal.

Alissa HammoudMeriem LouniFlorence FenollarHubert BasseneMasse SambouNathalie DuclosGeorges DiattaCheikh SokhnaAnthony LevasseurDidier RaoultOleg Mediannikov

Published in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2022)

The presence of live B. quintana in head lice, and the genetic identity of strains from patients' blood and head lice during a localised outbreak in Senegal, supports the evidence of head lice vectorial capacity.

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optic nerve
end stage renal disease
chronic kidney disease
newly diagnosed
ejection fraction
prognostic factors
peritoneal dialysis
optical coherence tomography
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