Abstract
Summary
Sandflies (P. verrucamm and P. noguchii) fed on patients showing many bartonellae in blood films became infected with a bartonella-like organism not as yet identified. A similar infection was found in only one of the wild sandflies examined.
Transmission experiments with sandflies and rhesus monkeys resulted negatively, but were too limited to be conclusive.
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