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Bartonellae were isolated or detected in 27 (31.4%) animals. <jats:italic>Bartonella<\/jats:italic> DNA was detected in 48 (64.9%) fleas and 11 (64.7%) pooled lice samples, but not in mite and tick samples. <jats:italic>Bartonella phoceensis<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>B. queenslandensis<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>B. tribocorum<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>B. elizabethae<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>B. rattimassiliensis<\/jats:italic> were isolated or detected in bacteremic mammals. For the first time in Taiwan, <jats:italic>B. tribocorum<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>B. elizabethae<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>B. queenslandensis<\/jats:italic>, and a <jats:italic>B. rochalimae<\/jats:italic>-like strain were detected in fleas, and <jats:italic>B. tribocorum<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>B. phoceensis,<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>B. rattimassiliensis<\/jats:italic> were detected in lice obtained from small mammals. 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