Sentences with phrase «bacterium from flea bites»

Cats are infected with the bacterium from flea bites and flea dirt (droppings) getting in their wounds.

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But researchers now realize that it probably wasn't until the end of the Bronze Age that the bacteria evolved from a less virulent species that may have spread more like the flu, tuberculosis, or AIDS than the bubonic plague, which is transmitted through flea bites to the skin.

The bacterium normally thrives in rodent populations, passing from one animal to another via the bites of plague - infected fleas.

Between 10 - 20 people in the United States are infected each year from flea or rodent bites, mainly in the rural southwest where prairie dogs sometimes carry the bacterium.

For example, murine typhus and bartonellosis (cat scratch disease) can be transmitted to humans from cat flea bites or the bacteria from feces of infected cat fleas (gross, right?).

Some bacteria, like Bartonella henselae, can be transmitted from fleas or cat bites.