From Cat Scratch Disease to Bartonella henselae Infection
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From Cat scratch disease to Bartonella henselae infection.
Cat scratch disease (CSD) is a relatively common disease mainly caused by Bar-tonella henselae. In this issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Maman et al. [1] report on musculoskeletal manifestations of CSD, extending the spectrum of clinical manifestations of B. henselae infection by including chronic arthritis, as well as emphasizing the prevalence of arthralgias. As a matter of fact, CSD is...
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BACKGROUND Most patients with infectious endocarditis (IE) due to Bartonella henselae have a history of exposure to cats and pre-existing heart valve lesions. To date, none of the reported patients have had a history of typical cat scratch disease (CSD) which is also a manifestation of infection with B. henselae. CASE PRESENTATION Here we report the case of a patient who had CSD and six month...
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Bartonella henselae has been reported to cause various clinical syndromes, including meningoencephalitis (9), endocarditis (6), bacillary angiomatosis (4, 5, 8), visceral peliosis (5), and cat scratch disease (CSD) (7). However, because of the fastidious nature of the bacterium, few clinical strains have being isolated, especially from patients with CSD. So, the diagnosis of B. henselae infecti...
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Few data are available on the seroprevalence of antibodies to Bartonella henselae among children. We retrospectively evaluated the presence of immunoglobulin G and M class antibodies to B. henselae in 508 children living in central Italy who were apparently free of any features suggesting B. henselae infection. We found that B. henselae infection is common among children in central Italy, occur...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1086/523716