Culling of Urban Norway Rats and Carriage of Bartonella spp. Bacteria, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

We investigated the effects of culling on Bartonella spp. bacteria carriage among urban rats in Canada. We found that the odds of Bartonella spp.

When the Sum of the Parts Tells You More Than the Whole: The Advantage of Using Metagenomics to Characterize spp. Infections in Norway Rats () and Their Fleas.

Urban Norway rats () are a reservoir for spp. - a genus of zoonotic bacteria transmitted by hematophagous vectors, particularly fleas. Rats and fleas may be infected with more than one species; however, mixed infections may be difficult to detect using culture and/or mono-locus PCR.