Landes, Michal Maor, Yasmin Mercer, Diego Habot-Wilner, Zohar Bilavsky, Efraim Chazan, Bibiana Cohen, Regev Glikman, Daniel Strahilevitz, Jacob Katzir, Michal
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Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Fever of unknown origin (FUO) is a rare manifestation of cat scratch disease (CSD). Data regarding CSD-associated FUO (CSD-FUO), particularly in adults, are limited. We aimed to study disease manifestations and long-term clinical outcome. A national CSD surveillance study has been conducted in Israel since 1991. Data are obtained using questionnair...
Divari, Sara Pregel, Paola Zanet, Stefania Ferroglio, Ezio Giannini, Francesca Scaglione, Frine Eleonora Grinberg, Alex Biolatti, Bartolomeo Bollo, Enrico
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Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI
Simple Summary Invasive rats and field mice were captured under the project RESTO CON LIFE “Island conservation in Tuscany, restoring habitat not only for birds”, aiming to improve habitats preservation on the Italian islands of Pianosa, Elba, Montecristo, and Giannutri. Bartonella henselae DNA was detected in one captured animal. This is the first...
Orellana-Rios, Jorge Verdaguer-Diaz, Juan I. Opazo, Gabriela Leong, Belinda C.S. Zett, Claudio Smith, R. Theodore Freund, K. Bailey
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IDCases
To describe the ocurrence of Bartonella -associated neuroretinitis secondary to non-feline pet exposure, we retrospectively reviewed medical records and imaging from patients with a clinical and serologic diagnosis of Bartonella henselae (BH). Retinal imaging included color fundus photography, optical coherence tomography (OCT) and fluorescein angi...
Dougas, Georgios Mavrouli, Maria Tsakris, Athanassios Billinis, Charalambos Papaparaskevas, Joseph
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
Rickettsia typhi and Bartonella henselae are the causative agents of murine typhus and cat-scratch disease, respectively. A small-scale survey (N = 202) was conducted in the Attica region, Greece, for determining the prevalence rates of IgG antibodies against B. henselae and R. typhi by indirect fluorescence antibody test. IgG against B. henselae a...
Eloubeidi, Dala M Kilpatrick, David L Crosson, Jason N
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American journal of ophthalmology case reports
To summarize the case of a 13 year-old boy diagnosed with a BRAO secondary to B. henselae infection. The patient presented with a sudden, unilateral, and painless scotoma. Fundoscopic findings and multimodal imaging were consistent with a BRAO with associated areas of intraretinal whitening along the involved artery. Upon further questioning, the p...
Selmi, Rachid Ben Said, Mourad Ben Yahia, Houcine Abdelaali, Hedi Boulouis, Henri-Jean Messadi, Lilia
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Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases
Bartonellosis is one of the clinically underdiagnosed emerging bacterial diseases among domestic livestock, particularly in camels. Until now, the natural infection of camels with Bartonella species was not investigated in Tunisia. In the attempt of filling this gap in knowledge, a total of 412 dromedary camels (Camelus dromedarius) as well as 300 ...
Ud Din, Mohammad Ammad Hussain, Syed Ather Said, Bassil Zafar, Aneeqa
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European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
A 44-year-old woman with no significant medical history presented with a 3-week history of high-grade fevers, fatigue and shortness of breath. Laboratory investigation was significant for lymphopenia and thrombocytopenia which progressively worsened during her hospital stay, along with new-onset anaemia, and elevated ferritin, transaminase and trig...
Godfrey, Rebecca Curtis, Sally Schilling, William HK James, P Rachael
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Clinical Medicine
Blood culture negative endocarditis (BCNE) accounts for up to 20% of infective endocarditis. While the most common cause of BCNE remains the initiation of antibiotics prior to culture, intracellular organisms such as Coxiella and Bartonella spp account for a significant proportion of cases. Identifying the infecting organism remains important to en...
Nawrocki, Courtney C. Max, Ryan J. Marzec, Natalie S. Nelson, Christina A.
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
Atypical manifestations that can be severe and difficult to diagnosis develop in 5%–20% of patients with cat-scratch disease. To clarify the epidemiology of atypical cat-scratch disease in the United States, we analyzed data from the 2005–2014 MarketScan national health insurance claims databases by using the International Classification of Disease...
Eyer-Silva, Walter de Araujo Wutke, Letícia Stéfanie Curvello Paiva, Alexandre de Carvalho Mendes da Silva, Guilherme Almeida Rosa Ferry, Fernando Raphael de Almeida Signorini, Dario José Hart Pontes de Oliveira, Jonathan Gonçalves Lemos, Elba Regina Sampaio
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Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
The differential diagnosis of optic neuritis is broad and varied. We report the case of a 24-year-old Brazilian man who presented with five-week history of fever, malaise, myalgia, severe fatigue, tender right preauricular lymphadenopathy, and acute vision blurring associated with right optic disc swelling and exudates in a macular star pattern. Hi...
