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No viable B. quintana have ever been isolated from head lice before; therefore, their role as a vector is still poorly understood.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>In Senegal, the implementation of a permanent local surveillance system in a point-of-care laboratory (POC) allows the monitoring of emerging diseases. Here we used culture as well as molecular and genomic approaches to document an outbreak of trench fever associated with head lice in the village of Ndiop. Head lice and blood samples were collected from febrile patients between November 2010 and April 2015. Genomes of 2 isolated strains of B. quintana were sequenced and analyzed.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>A total of 2289 blood samples were collected in the 2010\u20132015 period. From 2010\u20132013, B. quintana DNA was detected by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in 0.25% (4\/1580). In 2014, 228 blood samples were collected, along with 161 head lice from 5 individuals. B. quintana DNA was detected in 4.4% (10\/228) of blood samples, and in lice specimens collected from febrile patients (61.7%, 50\/81) and non-febrile patients (61.4%, 43\/70). Two B. quintana strains were isolated from blood and head lice from 2 different patients. Genomic sequence analysis showed 99.98% overall similarity between both strains.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>The presence of live B. quintana in head lice, and the genetic identity of strains from patients\u2019 blood and head lice during a localized outbreak in Senegal, supports the evidence of head lice vectorial capacity.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/cid\/ciac937","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,26]],"date-time":"2022-12-26T08:41:30Z","timestamp":1672044090000},"page":"1382-1390","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["<i>Bartonella quintana<\/i>Transmitted by Head Lice: An Outbreak of Trench Fever in Senegal"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"76","author":[{"given":"Alissa","family":"Hammoud","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e Infection , Marseille , France"},{"name":"MEPHI, Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM , Marseille , 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