Of the clinically significant Bartonella species, which is transmitted via a fleabite with the reservoir being rats?

a. B. bacilliformis
b. B. henselae
c. B. elizabethae
d. B. clarridgeiae


C
B. elizabethae is the only organism listed whose reservoir is rats. The reservoirs for all other or-ganisms listed are either domestic cats or dogs.

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