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An infestation of cat fleas in a research center led to the detection of two genotypes of  Ctenocephalides felis  biting humans in New Jersey, USA. The rarer flea genotype had an 83% incidence of  Rickettsia asembonensis , a recently described bacterium closely related to  R. felis,  a known human pathogen. A metagenomics analysis developed in under a week recovered the entire  R. asembonensis  genome at high coverage and matched it to identical or almost identical (> 99% similarity) strains reported worldwide. Our study exposes the potential of cat fleas as vectors of human pathogens in crowded northeastern U.S, cities and suburbs where free-ranging cats are abundant. Furthermore, it demonstrates the power of metagenomics to glean large amounts of comparative data regarding both emerging vectors and their pathogens.

Metagenomic analysis of human-biting cat fleas in urban northeastern United States of America reveals an emerging zoonotic pathogen