CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE
Improved Culture from Lymph Nodes of Patients with Cat Scratch Disease and Genotypic Characterization of Bartonella henselae Isolates in Australia
... Cat scratch disease (CSD) is a frequent and mostly self- limiting zoonosis. It is mainly reported in children and young adults, in whom it usually presents as a benign enlargement of lymph nodes ...
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Seroprevalence of Antibodies to Bartonella henselae in Patients with Cat Scratch Disease and in Healthy Controls: Evaluation and Comparison of Two Commercial Serological Tests
... of cat scratch disease ...63 cat owners, 65 individuals whose last close contact with cats was >6 months pre- viously, and 142 persons who had never been exposed to cats) were investigated ...
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Optic Neuropathy Secondary to Cat Scratch Disease: Distinguishing MR Imaging Features from Other Types of Optic Neuropathies
... Because cat scratch disease is infectious, one might expect to see similar MR imaging findings in optic neuropathy due to other types of infections such as toxoplasmosis, cytomegalovirus, herpes ...
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Detection of Rochalimaea henselae DNA in specimens from cat scratch disease patients by PCR
... This two-step assay was applied to DNAs extracted from 16 fresh unfixed lymph node biopsy specimens and nine aspirates from patients with clinical cat scratch disease CSD to assay for th[r] ...
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Hepatosplenic abscesses in an immunocompetent child with cat-scratch disease from Peru
... Cat-scratch disease (CSD) is an infectious zoonotic dis- ease, usually benign, caused by Bartonella henselae and B. clarridgeiae [1]. The causative agents are gram- negative coccobacilli whose ...
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Detection by Immunofluorescence Assay of Bartonella henselae in Lymph Nodes from Patients with Cat Scratch Disease
... of cat scratch disease (CSD) may be improved, with a specificity of 100%, when the two tests (IFD and IFA) were negative; the sensitivity was ...
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Diagnostic value of the indirect immunofluorescence assay in cat scratch disease with Bartonella henselae and Afipia felis antigens.
... Cat scratch disease (CSD) was initially described by Debre ´ et ...this disease, but the certainty of a bacterial origin issued from the works of Wear et ...this disease (2); and (v) ...
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16S rRNA sequences of Bartonella bacilliformis and cat scratch disease bacillus reveal phylogenetic relationships with the alpha 2 subgroup of the class Proteobacteria
... 16S rRNA Sequences of Bartonella bacilliformis and Cat Scratch Disease Bacillus Reveal Phylogenetic Relationships with the Alpha-2 Subgroup of the Class Proteobacteria STEVEN P.. O'CONNO[r] ...
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Diagnosis of Cat Scratch Disease with Detection of Bartonella henselae by PCR: a Study of Patients with Lymph Node Enlargement
... Cat scratch disease (CSD) is mostly due to Bartonella henselae after inoculation of the organism through a skin injury. Since the causative bacteria cannot be easily cultured from human lymph node ...
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Characterization of a 17 kilodalton antigen of Bartonella henselae reactive with sera from patients with cat scratch disease
... Cat scratch disease (CSD) is a common cause of regional lymphadenitis in children and young adults; approximately 22,000 cases occur each year in the United States ...a cat scratch or ...
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From cat scratch disease to endocarditis, the possible natural history of Bartonella henselaeinfection
... and cannot be detected using routine blood cultures due to the fastidious nature of the bacteria. The most widely used method for the laboratory diagnosis of infection with Bartonella sp. is serology. Enzyme immunoassay ...
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First isolation and genotyping of Bartonella henselae from a cat living with a patient with cat scratch disease in Southeast Europe
... Cat-scratch disease typically presents as regional lymph- adenopathy in people with a history of cat contact, usu- ally kittens ...The disease occurs more often in younger people with ...
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Predominance of two Bartonella henselae variants among cat scratch disease patients in the Netherlands
... infected cat, and from 23 of 61 cats in the greater San Francisco Bay ...the cat as a major reservoir for ...in cat-scratch disease (CSD) in immuno- competent patients (1, 3, 6, ...
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Genomic Variation of Bartonella henselae Strains Detected in Lymph Nodes of Patients with Cat Scratch Disease
... Bartonella henselae is the primary agent of cat scratch disease (CSD). In order to study the genetic variation of B. henselae and the correlation of the various genotypes with epidemiological and ...
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Detection of Bartonella henselae DNA by Two Different PCR Assays and Determination of the Genotypes of Strains Involved in Histologically Defined Cat Scratch Disease
... Cat scratch disease (CSD) is a common cause of subacute regional lymphadenopathy, not only in children but also in adults. Serological and molecular studies demonstrated that Bartonella henselae is ...
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CAT SCRATCH DISEASE: NONBACTERIAL REGIONAL LYMPHADENITIS
... Of 145 patients with nonbacterial lymphadenitis observed over a period of 10 years, 115 had clinical cat scratch disease (CSD) with a positive cat scratch antigen skin test.. These un-.[r] ...
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CAT SCRATCH DISEASE AS A CAUSE OF THE OCULOGLANDULAR SYNDROME OF PARINAUD
... One lesion (Case II) demonstrated a typical microabscess (Fig. 1) similar to those described by Marsha!12 in the regional lymph nodes of cases of cat scratch disease. This same picture m[r] ...
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Cat Scratch Disease: The Larger View
... In this series it was reported that, among the histopathological studies done, “7 were diag- nostic for cat scratch disease.” All microscopic. studies previously done would indicate that[r] ...
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Utility of Bartonella henselae IgM Western Blot Bands for Serodiagnosis of Cat Scratch Disease
... There have been many reports on WB analyses that use antigens prepared from B. henselae observing many bands that react to IgG from the sera of CSD patients (15–18). FIG 1 Typical patterns of IgM Western blot analysis ...
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Pitfalls and fallacies of cat scratch disease serology: evaluation of Bartonella henselae based indirect fluorescence assay and enzyme linked immunoassay
... During the last few years it has become clear that the ma- jority of cat scratch disease (CSD) cases are caused by Bar- tonella henselae (2, 6, 10, 13, 19). Culture of B. henselae from the lymph ...
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