Detection of Bartonella spp. in farmed deer (Artiodactyla: Cervidae) using multiplex assays in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China.

Abstract

This is the first report about Bartonella infections in the deer population from China. We found that there were two species of Bartonella and an unidentified species of Bartonella among the unculturing strains carried by these deer populations. We first used Nanopore sequencing to detect Bartonella from deer blood samples and indicated that Nanopore sequencing is beneficial to detect pathogens due to its advantage of real-time and high sensitivity.