Each year in the United States, 500 patients are hospitalized for cat-scratch disease, caused by Bartonella henselae infection. We report a case of rare but serious neurologic B. henselae infection. When typical features of cat-scratch disease occur with neurologic findings, Bartonella infection should be suspected and diagnostic testing should be performed.
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04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute for Infectious Diseases > Infection Serology 04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine and Anaesthesiology (DINA) > Clinic of Intensive Care 04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Head Organs and Neurology (DKNS) > Clinic of Neurology 04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Haematology, Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Laboratory Medicine and Hospital Pharmacy (DOLS) > Clinic of Infectiology 04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute for Infectious Diseases |
UniBE Contributor: |
Sendi, Parham, Hirzel, Cédric, Bloch, Andreas, Fischer, Urs Martin, Jeannet, Natalie, Berlinger, Livia, Krestel, Heinz Eric |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology 600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
ISSN: |
1080-6040 |
Publisher: |
U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases |
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English |
Submitter: |
Annelies Luginbühl
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Date Deposited: |
24 Oct 2017 11:30 |
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02 Mar 2023 23:29 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.3201/eid2304.161733 |
PubMed ID: |
28322716 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Bartonella henselae bacteria cat-scratch disease myelitis transverse myelitis zoonoses |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.98333 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/98333 |
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