Isolation of Bartonella quintana from a Woman and a Cat following Putative Bite Transmission
Open Access
- 1 January 2007
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 45 (1) , 270-272
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.01451-06
Abstract
We report here the detection of Bartonella quintana , after putative bite transmission, in pre-enrichment blood cultures from a woman and from two feral barn cats. Prospective molecular epidemiological studies are necessary to characterize the risk of human Bartonella quintana infection following cat bites.Keywords
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