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This is on Bartonella research suggesting that it can be transmitted among family members (by birth and possibly by sex? the spouse's infection is not explained).
Ticks and Lyme are not mentioned at all. Bartonella is stated to be transmitted by the bites of fleas, lice and biting flies, and one form by cat scratches.
"Dr. Michael Kosoy, who heads the Bartonella laboratory for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Fort Collins, Colo., said scientists are only beginning to build evidence that Bartonella infections may be more common than previously thought."
"Proving the mother-child transmission could be difficult, however. Little funding is available for such research because the bacteria are still not considered a major source of human disease."
""I suspect this is going to be one of the causes of rheumatoid arthritis and a few other things, but it's too speculative right now to say," Mozayeni said."
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