ArticleThe ISME journal2013
Yersinia pestis infection and laboratory conditions alter flea-associated bacterial communities.
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- Interaction of Bacteria and Fleas, Focusing on the Plague Bacterium-A Review.Microorganisms · 2025Review
- Different characteristics of the soil in marmot habitats might be one of the factors that influctingFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Putative Horizontally Acquired Genes, Highly Transcribed during Yersinia pestis Flea Infection, Are Induced by Hyperosmotic Stress and Function in Aromatic Amino Acid Metabolism.Journal of bacteriology · 2020Article
- Co-infection Assay to Determine Yersinia pestis Competitive Fitness in Fleas.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2019Article
- A bacterial filter protects and structures the gut microbiome of an insect.The ISME journal · 2016Article
- Feeding Behavior Modulates Biofilm-Mediated Transmission of Yersinia pestis by the Cat Flea, Ctenocephalides felis.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2016Article
- Flea-Associated Bacterial Communities across an Environmental Transect in a Plague-Endemic Region of Uganda.PloS one · 2015Article
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- Short report: Exposing laboratory-reared fleas to soil and wild flea feces increases transmission of Yersinia pestis.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2013Article
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Abstract
We collected Oropsylla montana from rock squirrels, Spermophilus varigatus, and infected a subset of collected fleas with Yersinia pestis, the etiological agent of plague. We used bar-tagged DNA pyrosequencing to characterize bacterial communities of wild, uninfected controls and infected fleas. Bacterial communities within Y. pestis-infected fleas were substantially more similar to one another than communities within wild or control fleas, suggesting that infection alters the bacterial community in a directed manner such that specific bacterial lineages are severely reduced in abundance or entirely eliminated from the community. Laboratory conditions also significantly altered flea-associated bacterial communities relative to wild communities, but much less so than Y. pestis infection. The abundance of Firmicutes decreased considerably in infected fleas, and Bacteroidetes were almost completely eliminated from both the control and infected fleas. Bartonella and Wolbachia were unaffected or responded positively to Y. pestis infection.
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