Publications
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| relapsing bacteremia after blood transmission of bartonella henselae to cats. | to determine persistence of bacteremia, pathogenicity, and immunoglobulin kinetics after blood transmission of bartonella henselae in cats. | 1997 | 9140557 |
| cat-scratch disease in a patient undergoing haemodialysis. | 1997 | 9141021 | |
| cat scratch disease in a child. | we report a case of a 9-year-old girl scratched on the right side of her neck by a kitten about one month prior to admission. she was well until three weeks later when she developed enlarged right neck masses, a pustula on the scratch site, right injected conjunctiva, headache, general malaise and fever, thus fulfilling the clinical criteria for csd. initially, she was treated by a practicing physician but the manifestations persisted for one week. after admission, leukocytosis and a mildly elev ... | 1997 | 9151470 |
| [2 patients with atypical manifestations of cat-scratch disease]. | in 2 boys aged 8 years and 10 months, respectively, uncommon manifestations of cat scratch disease were seen. the first patient had acute encephalopathy: coma and generalized tonic-clinic convulsions. the second patient was presented with fever and peripheral lymphadenopathy in combination with hypodense lesions in the liver on ultrasound. diagnosis was established on the clinical picture and the positive results of serological testing of antibody titres for bartonella henselae. both patients re ... | 1997 | 9157299 |
| [visceral granulomas and pericardial effusion caused by a bartonella henselae infection]. | a 57 year-old woman was seen after a three-week period of upper abdominal pain, nausea, fever, headache and exertional dyspnoea. laboratory examination showed an elevated esr and serum gamma-gt activity. the chest x-ray showed cardiomegaly resulting from a pericardial effusion as was demonstrated by echocardiography. an abdominal ct-scan disclosed multiple hypodense lesions in the liver and spleen and lymphadenopathy along the hepatoduodenal ligament. liver biopsy showed a necrotising granulomat ... | 1997 | 9157300 |
| cat scratch disease as a rare cause of obstructive jaundice: a case report. | 1997 | 9157863 | |
| prevalence of bartonella henselae and bartonella clarridgeiae in stray cats. | the aim of the present work was to determine by blood culture the prevalence of blood infection with bartonella species in a well-defined, european, urban stray cat population. therefore, 94 stray cats were trapped from 10 cat colonies. blood samples of these cats were cultured on both blood agar and liquid medium in order to raise the likelihood of bacterial detection. fifty blood samples (53%) gave a positive culture result for bartonella species. isolate identification was performed by sequen ... | 1997 | 9163438 |
| seroprevalence of immunoglobulin g antibodies to bartonella henselae in cat owners. | 1997 | 9177972 | |
| bartonella infections. | 1997 | 9189670 | |
| [cat-scratch disease--an overlooked disease in denmark?]. | only one patient with cat-scratch disease (csd) has been reported in denmark. a case and retrospective investigation among patients admitted to the ward is presented. over a period of 3.5 years, six patients were found to have suffered from csd. the yearly incidence was calculated to 2.6/100,000. the patients were tested for antibodies against bartonella (rochalimaea) henselae with a new test developed at the danish serum institute. only two of the patients with csd had titres of antibodies high ... | 1997 | 9190717 |
| bartonella clarridgeiae, a newly recognized zoonotic pathogen causing inoculation papules, fever, and lymphadenopathy (cat scratch disease). | shortly after adopting a 6-week-old cat, a veterinarian was bitten on the left index finger. within 3 weeks, he developed headache, fever, and left axillary lymphadenopathy. initial blood cultures from the cat and veterinarian were sterile. repeat cultures from the cat grew bartonella-like organisms with lophotrichous flagella. sera from the veterinarian were not reactive against bartonella henselae, b. quintana, or b. elizabethae antigens but were seroreactive (reciprocal titer, 1,024) against ... | 1997 | 9196200 |
| culture-negative endocarditis: contribution of bartonella infections. | two cases of bartonella endocarditis are described: one in a 55 year old homeless alcoholic man, caused by bartonella quintana; the other in a 41 year old male with a history of exposure to cat fleas, caused by b henselae. serological testing and polymerase chain reaction of the excised valves were used to identify the organisms. false positive serology for chlamydia was detected in one case. | 1997 | 9196420 |
| detection of antibodies to bartonella henselae in clinically diagnosed cat scratch disease. | to determine the usefulness of an indirect immunoflourescence antibody test for antibodies to bartonella henselae in diagnosing cat scratch disease (csd). | 1997 | 9196486 |
| never discount an animal vector. | 1997 | 9197061 | |
| [cat-scratch disease: historical, clinical, phylogenetic and taxonomic aspects]. | the cat-scratch disease (csd) is known as a nosological entity since 1950. it was diagnosed by the clinical symptoms, epidemiologic data, and the intracutaneous test of hanger and rose. the aetiologic agent is bartonella (formerly rochalimaea) henselae occurring in thirty to fifty percent of healthy cats. the gramnegative alpha-2-proteobacteria cause the csd but also fever in healthy humans. patients suffering from aids show bacillary angiomatosis, bacillary peliosis hepatis, endocarditis, and s ... | 1997 | 9198973 |
| [cat scratch disease and associated infections]. | cat scratch disease (csd) was first described in france by debré et al. in 1950, yet the causative bacterial agent of csd remained obscure until 1992, when bartonella (formerly rochalimaea) henselae was implicated in csd by serological and microbiologic studies. b. henselae had been linked initially to bacillary angiomatosis (ba), but also bacillary peliosis, relapsing bacteremia and endocarditis. cats are healthy carriers of b. henselae and b. clarridgeiae, and can be bacteremic for months to y ... | 1997 | 9203735 |
| experimental infection of young specific pathogen-free cats with bartonella henselae. | eighteen 12-week-old specific pathogen-free cats, blood culture- and serum antibody-negative for bartonella henselae, were randomly allocated to groups and were intravenously inoculated with 10(10) (group 1), 10(8) (group 2), or 10(6) (group 3) b. henselae or with saline (group 4) or were not inoculated (group 5). cats were humanely killed at 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32 weeks after inoculation. all b. henselae-inoculated cats were bacteremic by 2 weeks after infection. bacteremia persisted until 32 week ... | 1997 | 9207369 |
| application of polymerase chain reaction assay in the diagnosis of orbital granuloma complicating atypical oculoglandular cat scratch disease. | parinaud oculoglandular syndrome is uncommon. most cases are caused by cat scratch disease (csd), recently discovered to be associated with the pathogen bartonella henselae. before isolation of the micro-organism, diagnosis relied on the presence of characteristic clinical features. however, atypical cases could cause diagnostic problems. with the development of an indirect fluorescent antibody test and polymerase chain reaction (pcr) assay, oculoglandular csd can be diagnosed readily. | 1997 | 9224472 |
| rapid polymerase chain reaction-based detection of the causative agent of cat scratch disease (bartonella henselae) in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded samples. | bartonella (formerly rochalimaea) henselae (bh) plays a central role in cat scratch disease. a polymerase chain reaction (pcr)-based assay that can detect bh dna in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (ff-pe) samples would have utility in the evaluation of processed lymph nodes suggestive of this disorder. fresh or ff-pe cultures of bh and related species were analyzed. thirteen lymph nodes (12 ff-pe and one fresh cell suspension) with necrotizing suppurative granulomatous inflammation and seven f ... | 1997 | 9224751 |
| the 75-kilodalton antigen of bartonella bacilliformis is a structural homolog of the cell division protein ftsz. | a genomic library of bartonella bacilliformis was constructed and screened with human anti-bartonella serum from a patient with the chronic, verruga peruana phase of bartonellosis. an immunoreactive clone isolated from this library was found to code for a 591-amino-acid protein with a high degree of sequence similarity to the ftsz family of proteins. the degree of amino acid identity between the b. bacilliformis protein (ftsz[bb]) and the other ftsz proteins is especially pronounced over the n-t ... | 1997 | 9226264 |
| molecular diagnosis of cat scratch disease: a two-step approach. | amplification of bartonella henselae dna has been proposed as a diagnostic test for cat scratch disease (csd). the sensitivities of the following three pcr assays were compared. pcr/rrna with universal primers amplifies part of the 16s rrna gene, followed by hybridization with a specific b. henselae probe; pcr/cs and pcr/hsp amplify portions of the glta and the htra genes, respectively, each followed by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. the threshold of detection of b. henselae ... | 1997 | 9230357 |
| pitfalls and fallacies of cat scratch disease serology: evaluation of bartonella henselae-based indirect fluorescence assay and enzyme-linked immunoassay. | the diagnostic value of the detection of immunoglobulin g (igg) and igm by bartonella henselae-based indirect fluorescence assay (ifa) and enzyme-linked immunoassay (eia) for the diagnosis of cat scratch disease (csd) was evaluated. the ifa was performed either with b. henselae that was cocultivated for a few hours with vero cells or with noncocultivated b. henselae as the antigen. additionally, the performance of a bartonella pcr hybridization assay based on the 16s rrna gene was determined and ... | 1997 | 9230358 |
| pcr amplification and comparison of nucleotide sequences from the groesl heat shock operon of ehrlichia species. | degenerate pcr primers derived from conserved regions of the eubacterial groesl heat shock operon were used to amplify groesl sequences of ehrlichia equi, ehrlichia phagocytophila, the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (hge), ehrlichia canis, bartonella henselae, and rickettsia rickettsii. the groesl nucleotide sequences were less conserved than the previously determined 16s rrna gene sequences of these bacteria. a phylogenetic tree derived from deduced groel amino acid sequences was simi ... | 1997 | 9230387 |
| coinfection with bartonella clarridgeiae and bartonella henselae and with different bartonella henselae strains in domestic cats. | bartonella clarridgeiae and several strains of bartonella henselae, the agent of cat scratch disease, with variations in the 16s rrna gene have been found to infect the blood of cats. an epidemiologic study of bartonella infection in domestic french cats revealed that of 436 cats sampled, 5 cats (1.1%) were coinfected with b. henselae and b. clarridgeiae and 2 cats (0.5%) were coinfected with two strains of b. henselae with variations in the 16s rrna gene, b. henselae type i and type ii. in an i ... | 1997 | 9230394 |
| bartonellosis and human immunodeficiency disease (aids): l-forms as persisters, activating factors, and mechanism of disease. | bartonella, genus proteus, can cause immunodepressive disease. the organisms, in parasitized red blood cells, may invade the brain and every other system and space in the human body. bartonella henselae is proposed to have a role in the pathogenesis of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) encephalopathy. bartonella bacilliformis produces two known toxins that can induce spasm and angiomatosis, respectively, and manifest as diseases associated with symptomatic aids. the skin lesions of barto ... | 1997 | 9247895 |
| sternal abscess due to bartonella (rochalimaea) henselae in a renal transplant patient. | bartonella henselae, previously called rochalimaea henselae, is the causative agent of cat scratch disease (csd) in immunocompetent subjects and bacillary angiomatosis in immunocompromised ones. bone lesions are common in bacillary angiomatosis, but not in csd. we present the case of a patient with a renal transplant treated by immunosuppressive therapy who developed a sternal abscess with a histological pattern of csd. the ct pattern was that of a lytic bone lesion with adjacent fluid collectio ... | 1997 | 9259103 |
| immunologic response to bartonella henselae as determined by enzyme immunoassay and western blot analysis. | bartonella henselae is now regarded as the etiologic agent of cat-scratch disease and a cause of bacillary angiomatosis. we examined the human immune response to bartonella henselae infection using a newly developed enzyme immunoassay (eia) and a western blot procedure using outer-membrane proteins. the eia showed 98.6% and 91.4% agreement with an indirect fluorescence method (ifa) for detection of igm and igg antibodies, respectively. by using western blot analysis, reactivity to an 8-kd band s ... | 1997 | 9260762 |
| ease of isolation and semiquantitative culture of bartonella henselae from cats in melbourne. | 1997 | 9271032 | |
| current knowledge of bartonella species. | bartonella species are now considered emerging pathogens. of the 11 currently recognized species, four have been implicated in human disease, although only two have been encountered in europe. bartonella quintana infections are now being diagnosed among the urban homeless and deprived, manifesting as trench fever, and bartonella henselae has been shown to be the causative agent of cat scratch disease. both species also cause a variety of hiv-associated infections, including bacillary anglomatosi ... | 1997 | 9272384 |
| heat shock response and groel sequence of bartonella henselae and bartonella quintana. | transmission of bartonella species from ectoparasites to the mammalian host involves adaptation to thermal and other forms of stress. in order to better understand this process, the heat shock response of bartonella henselae and bartonella quintana was studied. cellular proteins synthesized after shift to higher temperatures were intrinsically labelled with [25s]methionine and analysed by gel electrophoresis and fluorography. the apparent molecular masses of three of the major heat shock protein ... | 1997 | 9274034 |
| prevalence of bartonella species in domestic cats in the netherlands. | cats have been shown to provide the only known reservoir of bartonella henselae, the causative agent of cat scratch disease. to determine the prevalence of bartonella bacteremia and antibodies in dutch cats, blood samples from 113 cats from shelters (sheltered cats), 50 pet cats, and 25 specific-pathogen-free (spf) cats were analyzed. culture and subsequent pcr-restriction fragment length polymorphism (rflp) analysis of the 16s-23s rrna intergenic region and 16s rrna gene pcr-hybridization assay ... | 1997 | 9276397 |
| bartonella (rochalimaea) henselae in southern africa--evidence for infections in domestic cats and implications for veterinarians. | substantial evidence has recently accumulated showing domestic cats to be the principal reservoirs of bartonella henselae, the aetiological agent of human diseases including cat-scratch disease, bacillary angiomatosis, bacillary peliosis and a febrile bacteraemia syndrome. to determine the prevalence of antibodies reactive with bartonella henselae in cats from southern africa, indirect fluorescent antibody assays were carried out on feline sera from south africa and zimbabwe. overall, 23% (39/17 ... | 1996 | 9284029 |
| flea-borne rickettsioses: ecologic considerations. | ecologic and economic factors, as well as changes in human behavior, have resulted in the emergence of new and the reemergence of existing but forgotten infectious diseases during the past 20 years. flea-borne disease organisms (e.g., yersinia pestis, rickettsia typhi, r. felis, and bartonella henselae) are widely distributed throughout the world in endemic-disease foci, where components of the enzootic cycle are present. however, flea-borne diseases could reemerge in epidemic form because of ch ... | 1997 | 9284376 |
| parinaud syndrome caused by bartonella henselae: case report. | the authors report a case of parinaud syndrome (conjunctivitis with pre-auricular satellite adenitis) caused by bartonella henselae, the etiologic agent of cat scratch disease. the etiologic assessment of this case was performed by serum indirect immunofluorescence reaction and allowed for a better therapeutics and follow up, avoiding ineffective antibiotics and surgical interventions. | 1996 | 9293091 |
| [bartonella henselae infection in immunocompetent patients: cat scratch disease]. | cat scratch disease, whose etiologic agent is bartonella henselae, is a benign disease in immunocompetent subjects, characterized by lymphadenopathy of prolonged course and occasional involvement of other organs such as liver, spleen, central nervous system, eye and lung. in immunocompromised patients, the infection is bacteremic and disseminated. | 1996 | 9293099 |
| cat-scratch encephalopathy. | we present a case of cat-scratch disease in a 9-year-old girl, complicated by encephalopathy and seizures. bartonella (formerly rochalimaea) henselae is the causative agent in cat-scratch disease; methods now available for detection of this pleomorphic, gram-negative bacterium, including polymerase chain reaction amplification and indirect fluorescence antibody testing, may lead to changes in standard criteria used to verify a diagnosis of cat-scratch disease. | 1997 | 9305359 |
| human zoonotic infections transmitted by dogs and cats. | dogs and cats are the 2 most common household pets. however, they may be a direct or indirect source of human infections. this article aims to familiarize physicians with some common and uncommon bacterial, rickettsial, parasitic, and fungal zoonotic infections of dogs and cats. animal bites with or without infection continue to be a common problem. treatment of infected animal bites must include early debridement and concern for organisms from the mouth flora of the animal. the diagnosis and tr ... | 1997 | 9308505 |
| [atypical cat-scratch disease: a case report of splenic granulomatosis]. | generally cat-scratch disease is a benign inflammatory adenopathy. the authors describe an atypical form of this disease, characterized by persistent fever and splenic granulomatosis requiring a diagnostic and therapeutic prolonged effort. they point out the important role of new immuno-fluorescent techniques to exactly identify the bacterium--bartonella henselae--causing cat-scratch disease and suggest to include cat-scratch disease among the causes of unknown origin fever. | 1997 | 9312753 |
| [late lymphoadenopathy in cat-scratch disease]. | 1997 | 9324701 | |
| seroprevalence of bartonella henselae infection and correlation with disease status in cats in switzerland. | the prevalence of infection with bartonella henselae was investigated in cats from different areas of switzerland. serum samples of 728 cats were examined for antibodies to b. henselae by immunofluorescent antibody testing, and the results were analyzed with a view to a possible correlation between a positive titer and signalment, clinical signs, infection with feline leukemia virus (felv), feline immunodeficiency virus (fiv), feline coronavirus (fcov), or feline spumavirus (fesfv), and the livi ... | 1997 | 9350752 |
| evaluation of commercial slides for detection of immunoglobulin g against bartonella henselae by indirect immunofluorescence. | four commercial slides were compared with in-house slides for the detection of immunoglobulin g (igg) against bartonella henselae in 58 healthy persons from a rural region by an indirect immunofluorescence assay. mrl-ba slides (mrl diagnostics, usa) and virion slides (virion, switzerland) with agar-derived bartonella henselae showed igg titers of > or = 1:256 in 44.8% and 51.7%, respectively, whereas bion slides (bios, germany), mrl-vero slides (mrl diagnostics), and in-house slides with cell-as ... | 1997 | 9352257 |
| bartonella henselae-associated acute multifocal retinitis in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. | 1997 | 9355199 | |
| analysis of 36-kilodalton protein (papa) associated with the bacteriophage particle of bartonella henselae. | a library of bartonella henselae dna was screened with antibody raised to the bacteriophage particle associated with this organism. a clone was isolated that expresses a 36-kd protein (termed papa for particle-associated protein) when examined by immunoblot analysis using antibody raised to the particle. southern blot hybridization indicates that the gene is present on the bacterial chromosome and packaged into the 14-kb particle-associated dna. a papa-specific probe hybridized to multiple bands ... | 1997 | 9364933 |
| american academy of dermatology 1997 awards for young investigators in dermatology. pathogenesis of bartonella henselae in cutaneous and systemic disease. | 1997 | 9366828 | |
| efficacy of enrofloxacin or doxycycline for treatment of bartonella henselae or bartonella clarridgeiae infection in cats. | enrofloxacin and doxycycline are antimicrobial agents used to treat bacterial diseases of cats. in vitro susceptibility data indicate that either drug should be effective against bartonella species. in vivo efficacies of these drugs for eradication of chronic bartonella henselae or bartonella clarridgeiae infections were examined in 18 experimentally infected cats and 25 naturally exposed cats treated with enrofloxacin (22.7 mg given orally [po] every 12 h [q12h] [14 days, n = 10; 28 days, n = 1 ... | 1997 | 9371348 |
| interaction of bartonella henselae with endothelial cells results in bacterial aggregation on the cell surface and the subsequent engulfment and internalisation of the bacterial aggregate by a unique structure, the invasome. | vascular colonisation by bartonella henselae may cause vaso-proliferative tumour growth with clumps of bacteria found in close association with proliferating endothelial cells. by using b. henselae-infected human umbilical vein endothelial cells as an in vitro model for endothelial colonisation, we report here on a novel mechanism of cellular invasion by bacteria. first, the leading lamella of endothelial cells establishes cellular contact to sedimented bacteria and mediates bacterial aggregatio ... | 1997 | 9378764 |
| [cat scratch disease. diagnostic and therapeutic considerations]. | 1997 | 9382360 | |
| [a case of cat scratch disease identified by an elevated bartonella henselae antibody level using enzyme immunoassay]. | a 68-year-old male was admitted to our hospital because of fever and a 2-week history of inguinal adenomegaly. since he owned a cat, cat scratch disease was suspected. but it was necessary to distinguish cat scratch disease from lymphoma type adult t-cell leukemia because he showed a high level of antibody against htlv-1. an excisional biopsy of the inguinal node was performed. histopathologic examination revealed abscess-forming granulomatous lymphadenitis compatible with cat scratch disease. a ... | 1997 | 9394562 |
| inflammatory mass of the optic nerve head associated with systemic bartonella henselae infection. | 1997 | 9400801 | |
| molecular epidemiology of bartonella infections in patients with bacillary angiomatosis-peliosis. | bacillary angiomatosis and bacillary peliosis are vascular proliferative manifestations of infection with species of the genus bartonella that occur predominantly in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. two species, b. henselae and b. quintana, have been associated with bacillary angiomatosis, but culture and speciation are difficult, and there has been little systematic evaluation of the species-specific disease characteristics. we studied 49 patients seen over eight years w ... | 1997 | 9407154 |
| of cats, humans, and bartonella. | 1997 | 9407161 | |
| comparison of the abilities of proteins from bartonella bacilliformis and bartonella henselae to deform red cell membranes and to bind to red cell ghost proteins. | infections in humans by bartonella bacilliformis, but not bartonella henselae, are characterized by invasion of red cells. supernatants of culture medium from b. bacilliformis and b. henselae each contain a protein which causes invagination of membranes of human red cells and formation of intracellular vacuoles. these two proteins are very similar in molecular mass, heat stability and mechanism of action. b. henselae does not bind to human red cells, but human red cell ghost membrane proteins we ... | 1997 | 9418257 |
| case records of the massachusetts general hospital. weekly clinicopathological exercises. case 1-1998. an 11-year-old boy with a seizure. | 1998 | 9424578 | |
| diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. | 1997 | 9428019 | |
| neuroretinitis and encephalopathy due to bartonella henselae infection. | 1997 | 9448896 | |
| radiological case of the month. granulomatous hepatitis in cat-scratch disease. | 1998 | 9452714 | |
| bartonella henselae as a cause of prolonged fever and fever of unknown origin in children. | a prospective evaluation of 146 children with fever of unknown origin (fuo) and prolonged fever was performed from 1990 to 1996. fuo was defined as a documented daily temperature of > or = 38 degrees c for at least 14 days without diagnostic signs or symptoms. prolonged fever was defined as fever for at least 14 days and no diagnosis at the time of referral for evaluation. an established diagnosis was made for 84 (57.5%) of 146 patients. the most common infectious disease diagnoses were epstein- ... | 1998 | 9455513 |
| isolation, sequencing and expression of the gene encoding a major protein from the backteriophage associated with bartonella henselae. | the gene encoding a 31-kda major protein (pap31) associated with the bacteriophage harbored in bartonella henselae was cloned and sequenced. analysis of the resulting sequence revealed an open reading frame of 837 nucleotides coding for a protein of 279 amino acids. pap31 was then subcloned downstream of the lacz promoter in puc19. pap31 was amplified by polymerase chain reaction, and the linear amplicon was used as template for in-vitro transcription and translation. a protein with an apparent ... | 1998 | 9461414 |
| immunopurified extracellular bartonella henselae antigen for detecting specific antibodies by enzyme immunoassay. | protein antigens of bartonella henselae bacterial sonicate supernatant and concentrated cell-free culture filtrate were examined by sds-page. the sonicate supernatant gave 38 bands and the culture filtrate at least 21, of which 18 were of bacterial origin. immunoblotting against 13 monoclonal antibodies obtained from mice infected with live b. henselae showed that 10 of these antibodies reacted with a narrow 225 kda band and varying smears of bands ranging from 36 to 240 kda in the sonicate, but ... | 1997 | 9463512 |
| bartonella henselae antibody prevalence in free-ranging and captive wild felids from california. | in order to determine the importance of wild felids in the epidemiology of bartonella spp. infection, 136 nobuto strips or serum samples from free-ranging mountain lions (felis concolor) and bobcats (felis rufus) captured in california (usa) between 1985 and 1996 were tested for b. henselae antibodies (titer > or = 1:64) using an immunofluorescence test. similarly, 124 serum samples from 114 captive wild cats representing 26 species or subspecies collected between 1991 and 1995 were retrieved fr ... | 1998 | 9476226 |
| seroprevalence of bartonella henselae in cattery cats: association with cattery hygiene and flea infestation. | we attempted to determine what factors were common to catteries with high bartonella henselae antibody prevalence compared with catteries with low prevalence, in order to contribute to better guidelines for the choice of a safe pet cat. the overall seroprevalence in 11 catteries from diverse geographical locations in north america in the present study was 35.8%. there was evidence of b. henselae exposure in all 11 homes tested, with 5 catteries being heavily infected. the distribution of b. hens ... | 1998 | 9477525 |
| hypercalcemia due to endogenous overproduction of active vitamin d in identical twins with cat-scratch disease. | the extrarenal synthesis of active vitamin d sterols has a central causative role in the hypercalcemia associated with various granulomatous diseases. | 1998 | 9480364 |
| bartonella henselae neuroretinitis in cat scratch disease. diagnosis, management, and sequelae. | this study aimed to report the long-term outcomes of patients treated with an antibiotic drug combination for bartonella henselae neuroretinitis. | 1998 | 9499776 |
| [emerging pathologies]. | 1997 | 9513170 | |
| cat scratch disease in greece. | an indirect fluorescent antibody test for bartonella henselae, b quintana, and b elizabethae was performed in all 18 children who presented to our paediatric outpatient clinic with cat scratch disease over a six year period. serum samples were taken on admission, after 15 days, and after six months. diagnosis was confirmed in 15 patients (83%) and was based on seroconversion or a fourfold change of the antibody titre to b henselae in 12 patients and on a single high titre (> 128) in three patien ... | 1998 | 9534680 |
| cat-scratch disease in a child with unique magnetic resonance imaging findings. | to report a patient with cat-scratch disease and the associated radiological findings. | 1998 | 9559718 |
| peloisis hepatis due to bartonella henselae in transplantation: a hemato-hepato-renal syndrome. | bacillary peliosis hepatis is an uncommon but well recognized disease due to disseminated bartonella infections occurring predominantly in immunocompromised individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus, type 1. a similar condition in the absence of bartonella infection when described in organ transplant patients was felt to be secondary to azathioprine and/or cyclosporine. | 1998 | 9565109 |
| cat scratch disease presenting with peripheral facial nerve paralysis. | acquired peripheral facial nerve paralysis is a relatively common disorder that affects both children and adults. the most frequent nontrauma-related etiologies in otherwise neurologically intact patients are idiopathic (bell's palsy) and infectious, which includes otitis media, herpes zoster, lyme disease, herpes simplex virus, epstein-barr virus, and mycoplasma pneumoniae. cat scratch disease (csd) is typically a subacute, regional lymphadenitis caused by bartonella henselae that is seen in ch ... | 1998 | 9565446 |
| igm to bartonella henselae in cat-scratch disease and during acute epstein-barr virus infection. | the diagnostic value of igm to bartonella henselae was evaluated in 20 children with cat-scratch disease (csd) and controls consisting of 20 blood donors and 20 children with enlarged lymph nodes without csd by two indirect immunofluorescence assays (ifa). one was based on b. henselae cocultivated with vero cells (host cell-associated ifa), and the other on b. henselae grown on agar (host cell-free ifa). with the host cell-associated ifa, 18 of 20 children with csd revealed igm, whereas only 14 ... | 1998 | 9574898 |
| systemic cat scratch disease: a brief case report and review of the literature. | 1998 | 9611416 | |
| culture-negative endocarditis caused by bartonella henselae. | a 4-year-old girl presented with clinical evidence of infective endocarditis involving her aortic valve, but blood cultures were sterile. serologic studies and analysis of resected valve by immunohistochemistry and polymerase chain reaction established the diagnosis of bartonella henselae endocarditis. clinicians should be aware that b. henselae can cause apparent culture-negative endocarditis in children. | 1998 | 9627605 |
| retinal and choroidal manifestations of cat-scratch disease. | the ability to diagnose cat-scratch disease (csd) has been facilitated greatly by the recent isolation and characterization of bartonella henselae (formerly genus rochalimaea) and afipia felis and by the subsequent development of specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa) serologic tests. this study will help define the patterns of posterior segment ocular involvement in patients with confirmed csd. | 1998 | 9627652 |
| bartonella henselae invasion of feline erythrocytes in vitro. | bartonella henselae, the causative agent of cat scratch disease, establishes long-term bacteremia in cats, in which it attaches to and invades feline erythrocytes (rbc). feline rbc invasion was assessed in vitro, based on gentamicin selection for intracellular bacteria or by laser confocal microscopy and digital sectioning. invasion rates ranged from 2 to 20% of the inoculum, corresponding to infection of less than 1% of the rbc. invasion was a slow process, requiring >8 h before significant num ... | 1998 | 9632625 |
| cat-scratch disease simulating histiocytosis x. | cat-scratch disease is a self-limited condition commonly causing a benign chronic lymphadenopathy in children. osteolytic lesions are a rare complication, but have been previously reported. we report a case of a solitary osteolytic lesion of the skull whose clinical, radiographic and pathological features were initially interpreted as being consistent with histiocytosis x. subsequently, positive serological titers for bartonella, a history of a cat-scratch antecedent to the onset of clinical sym ... | 1998 | 9635688 |
| [bartonella infections]. | 1996 | 9636758 | |
| characterization of bartonella henselae isolated from bacillary angiomatosis lesions in a human immunodeficiency virus-infected patient in germany. | infections with bartonella (rochalimaea) henselae can result in a variety of clinical entities, including bacillary angiomatosis in immunocompromised hosts. the fastidious nature of this bacterium has so far prevented the culture of many clinical isolates. we report the recovery of the first european b. henselae isolate associated with bacillary angiomatosis. the isolate was cultured in a frozen skin biopsy specimen from a human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)-infected patient and was characterized ... | 1998 | 9636850 |
| are all bartonella henselae strains created equal? | 1998 | 9636851 | |
| high prevalence of chlamydia pneumoniae dna in peripheral blood mononuclear cells in patients with cardiovascular disease and in middle-aged blood donors. | nested polymerase chain reaction (npcr) demonstrated the presence of chlamydia pneumoniae-specific dna in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (pbmc). pbmc samples were obtained from 103 consecutive patients (62 male, 41 female) aged 22-85 years (mean, 64) admitted for coronary angiography because of suspected coronary heart disease and from 52 blood donors (43 male, 9 female) aged 40-64 years (mean, 49). of the 101 evaluable patients, 60 (59%) were identified by npcr assay as c. pneumoniae dna ca ... | 1998 | 9652454 |
| prospective randomized double blind placebo-controlled evaluation of azithromycin for treatment of cat-scratch disease. | to determine the efficacy of azithromycin in the treatment of patients with typical cat-scratch disease. | 1998 | 9655532 |
| seroprevalence of antibodies to bartonella henselae in patients with cat scratch disease and in healthy controls: evaluation and comparison of two commercial serological tests. | serologic testing for the presence of antibodies to bartonella henselae is a widely accepted diagnostic procedure for laboratory confirmation of the diagnosis of cat scratch disease (csd). in this study a commercially available indirect immunofluorescence assay (ifa) based on b. henselae-infected human larynx carcinoma cells (test a) was evaluated. sera from 42 patients with csd (20 confirmed by pcr) and 270 sera from healthy controls (consisting of 63 cat owners, 65 individuals whose last close ... | 1998 | 9665953 |
| constitutive and inducible green fluorescent protein expression in bartonella henselae. | the green fluorescent protein (gfp) gene was expressed on a plasmid in b. henselae, and gfp-expressing bacteria were visualized by fluorescence microscopy. hep-2 cells infected with gfp-expressing bacteria were separated from uninfected cells with a fluorescence activated cell sorter. promoter fusions of b. henselae chromosomal dna to gfp were examined by flow cytometry, and a b. henselae groel promoter fusion which induced expression at 37 degreesc was isolated. | 1998 | 9673287 |
| use of retinal biopsy to diagnose bartonella (formerly rochalimaea) henselae retinitis in an hiv-infected patient. | a patient with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome developed bilateral retinitis due to a bartonella (formerly rochalimaea) henselae infection. a retinal biopsy was performed when severe and progressive retinal infection failed to respond to empirical treatment for cytomegalovirus and toxoplasma gondii. the biopsy specimen was stained with routine histopathological stains and the steiner silver stain. ribosomal dna was extracted from formalinfixed, paraffin-embedded retinal tissue and amplifi ... | 1998 | 9682711 |
| [cat-scratch disease. presentation of 2 cases in a family with serologic follow-up and discussion of diagnostic methods]. | two cases are reported of cat scratch disease which we consider worth describing both because of their familial presentation (the involved patients were brothers) and the serologic follow-up performed after diagnosis, which showed significant increases in igg antibody titers to bartonella henselae in both patients, one on day 35 and the other on day 45 after diagnosis. cat scratch disease is a rarely diagnosed condition in our environment and it is easily misdiagnosed with other regional lymphad ... | 1998 | 9691742 |
| radiological case of the month. cat-scratch disease with hepatic and splenic involvement. | 1998 | 9701150 | |
| [reactive arthritis after cat bit: a rare manifestation of cat scratch disease--case report and overview]. | cat scratch disease (csd) is a rarely recognized infectious disease in germany. only a few years ago the causative agent, bartonella henselae, could be isolated. the typical clinical manifestations of csd consist of skin changes at the inoculation site and a benign lymphadenopathy; other manifestations are rare. we report the case of a 47 year old woman, who developed a reactive spondylarthropathy with synovitis of finger joints, polyarthralgias of large- and medium-sized joints, and inflammator ... | 1998 | 9702836 |
| cat scratch disease: the rare role of afipia felis. | since its isolation in 1988, afipia felis has been associated with cat scratch disease (csd) in only one report and its role in csd has been questioned. we have cultured a. felis from a lymph node of a patient with csd. 16s rrna gene sequencing, dna relatedness studies, fatty acid analysis, and pcr of the a. felis ferredoxin gene showed that the isolate is identical to the previously reported a. felis isolate. to determine the role of a. felis in csd, pcr of the 16s rrna gene followed by hybridi ... | 1998 | 9705382 |
| anterior uveitis associated with cat scratch disease. | 1998 | 9713073 | |
| construction of versatile high-level expression vectors for bartonella henselae and the use of green fluorescent protein as a new expression marker. | expression vectors suitable for directing high levels of protein synthesis in bartonella henselae have been constructed based on the mobilisable broad-host-range (incq) plasmidpmmb206. they confer kanamycin resistance and feature the taclac (tac-lacuv5 in tandem) promoters in front of a polylinker followed by the rrnb transcriptional stop point. while expression of genes fused to the taclac promoter is constitutive in one vector, the laciq gene carried by the other vector allows a controlled, ip ... | 1998 | 9714815 |
| cat-scratch disease with an extraaxial mass. | ct and mr imaging of the brain and gallium-67 scintigraphy showed an enhancing, gallium-avid mass in the left middle cranial fossa of a 10-year-old girl. craniotomy revealed an inflammatory mass related to the left trigeminal nerve. the lesion contained rodlike bacteria, and serologic tests were positive for cat-scratch disease. neurologic involvement in cat-scratch disease is uncommon, and the presence of organisms in neural tissue has not been reported. | 1998 | 9726471 |
| bartonella serology for patients with intraocular inflammatory disease. | to determine the role of bartonella henselae in intraocular inflammatory disease and identify its clinical features. | 1998 | 9730179 |
| bartonella henselae isolated from cats in zimbabwe. | 1998 | 9734895 | |
| a farmer with a lump in his throat. | 1998 | 9734943 | |
| comparison of different dna fingerprinting techniques for molecular typing of bartonella henselae isolates. | seventeen isolates of bartonella henselae from the region of freiburg, germany, obtained from blood cultures of domestic cats, were examined for their genetic heterogeneity. on the basis of different dna fingerprinting methods, including pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (pfge), enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (eric)-pcr, repetitive extragenic palindromic (rep) pcr, and arbitrarily primed (ap)-pcr, three different variants were identified among the isolates (variants i to iii). va ... | 1998 | 9738053 |
| cat scratch disease due to bartonella henselae serotype marseille (swiss cat) in a seronegative patient. | 1998 | 9742017 | |
| cat-scratch disease caused by bartonella henselae: the first case report in taiwan. | we report a typical case of cat-scratch disease caused by bartonella henselae, in taiwan. a 20-year-old man developed right axillary lymphadenopathy 2 weeks after being scratched on his right hand by a kitten. the axillary lymphadenopathy resolved gradually and spontaneously after 10 weeks without specific treatment. serologic tests were not done during the acute stage of the event. however, an immunofluorescent antibody test performed during the convalescent stage was positive for b. henselae a ... | 1998 | 9747069 |
| cat-scratch disease manifesting as unifocal helioid choroiditis. | 1998 | 9747695 | |
| detection of bartonella henselae by polymerase chain reaction in brain tissue of an immunocompromised patient with multiple enhancing lesions. case report and review of the literature. | the authors report the first dna-based diagnosis of bartonella henselae cultured from a brain lesion in a patient with acquired immune deficiency syndrome. this human immunodeficiency virus-infected patient presented with altered mental status, fever, and diabetes insipidus. magnetic resonance imaging revealed multifocal parenchymal and leptomeningeal involvement, which was confirmed on studies of tissue biopsy samples. using the polymerase chain reaction and gene sequencing techniques, the auth ... | 1998 | 9761060 |
| disseminated bartonella henselae (cat-scratch disease): appearance of multifocal osteomyelitis with mr imaging. | 1998 | 9763023 | |
| cat-scratch disease osteomyelitis from a dog scratch. | osteomyelitis is a rare manifestation of cat-scratch disease in patients who do not have aids. the clinical presentation and non-specific subacute course of the disease make diagnosis difficult. we present a child with osteomyelitis of a metacarpal following a dog scratch. bartonella henselae was found to be the aetiological agent. the bone healed after treatment with antibiotics. increased awareness and a comprehensive medical history are needed to identify patients with suspected bartonella he ... | 1998 | 9768882 |
| [fever of unknown origin]. | 1998 | 9773562 |