CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE
- 1 December 1951
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine
- Vol. 88 (6) , 736-751
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1951.03810120037003
Abstract
INCIDENT to his studies on tularemia in 1932, Dr. Lee Foshay1in Cincinnati first recognized a disease entity occurring in persons who had been scratched by or had had contact with cats. This illness was characterized by the appearance of an initial cutaneous lesion at the site of a scratch, followed by the development of regional lymphadenitis which frequently proceeded to suppuration. The aspirated pus was sterile, and serologic studies gave negative reaction for tularemia. During the past 20 years Foshay has studied "a score or more" of these patients, but his attempts at elucidating the etiology were unrewarding. He has not reported his work. In 1945, Dr. F. M. Hanger1in New York had a paronychia after gardening. There was a cat in the household, but Hanger had no history of scratch. Sterile suppurative regional adenitis associated with fever and constitutional symptoms ensued. An antigen prepared fromKeywords
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