Diversity of Bartonella and Rickettsia spp. in Bats and Their Blood-Feeding Ectoparasites from South Africa and Swaziland

• Muriel Dietrich,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

  ⨯
• Mabotse A. Tjale,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

  ⨯
• Jacqueline Weyer,

  Affiliations National Institute for Communicable Disease, National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

  ⨯
• Teresa Kearney,

  Affiliations Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, Pretoria, South Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  ⨯
• Ernest C. J. Seamark,

  Affiliations AfricanBats, Kloofsig, South Africa, Centre for Wildlife Management, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

  ⨯
• Louis H. Nel,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

  ⨯
• Ara Monadjem,

  Affiliation University of Swaziland, Kwaluseni, Swaziland

  ⨯
• Wanda Markotter

  * E-mail: wanda.markotter@up.ac.za

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

  ⨯