Fournier P E, Minnick M F, Lepidi H, Salvo E, Raoult D
Unité des rickettsies, CNRS:UPRESA 6020, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, 13385 Marseille Cedex 05, France.
Infect Immun. 2001 Mar;69(3):1876-9. doi: 10.1128/IAI.69.3.1876-1879.2001.
A laboratory colony of human body lice was experimentally infected by feeding on rabbits made artificially bacteremic with a green fluorescent protein-expressing Bartonella quintana. B. quintana was detected in the gut and feces until death but not in the eggs. The life span of the lice was not modified. The rabbit model should provide valuable clues to the role of lice in the transmission of B. quintana.
通过让人体虱的实验群体取食用人造表达绿色荧光蛋白的五日热巴尔通体造成菌血症的兔子,使其受到实验性感染。在虱死亡前,在其肠道和粪便中检测到了五日热巴尔通体,但在虱卵中未检测到。虱的寿命未受到影响。该兔子模型应为虱在五日热巴尔通体传播中的作用提供有价值的线索。