Isolation of Bartonella henselae DNA from the Peripheral Blood of a Patient with Cat Scratch Disease up to 4 Months after the Cat Scratch Injury

1 June 2006

journal article
case report
Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Vol. 44 (6) , 2288-2290
https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.00239-06

Abstract

We report the case of a girl with cervical lymphadenitis and a persistent primary lesion of cat scratch disease (CSD). Bartonella henselae DNA was isolated from plasma samples collected 3 and 4 months after the cat scratch, indicating that recurrent and long-term shedding of Bartonella DNA into peripheral blood may occur in typical CSD.

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