Beyond Cat Scratch Disease: A Case Report of Bartonella Infection Mimicking Vasculitic Disorder

Cat scratch disease (CSD) is a bacterial disease caused by Bartonella henselae and it is mainly characterized by self-limiting lymphadenopathy in the draining site of a cat scratch or bite. We report a patient with history of fever, swelling lymph nodes, vasculitic-like skin lesions, and positivity...

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Autores principales: Spinella, Amelia, Lumetti, Federica, Sandri, Gilda, Cestelli, Valentina, Mascia, Maria Teresa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3423660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22924138
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/354625
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author Spinella, Amelia
Lumetti, Federica
Sandri, Gilda
Cestelli, Valentina
Mascia, Maria Teresa
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description Cat scratch disease (CSD) is a bacterial disease caused by Bartonella henselae and it is mainly characterized by self-limiting lymphadenopathy in the draining site of a cat scratch or bite. We report a patient with history of fever, swelling lymph nodes, vasculitic-like skin lesions, and positivity of Bartonella serology initially considered as expression of a disimmune disease.
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spelling pubmed-34236602012-08-24 Beyond Cat Scratch Disease: A Case Report of Bartonella Infection Mimicking Vasculitic Disorder Spinella, Amelia Lumetti, Federica Sandri, Gilda Cestelli, Valentina Mascia, Maria Teresa Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Cat scratch disease (CSD) is a bacterial disease caused by Bartonella henselae and it is mainly characterized by self-limiting lymphadenopathy in the draining site of a cat scratch or bite. We report a patient with history of fever, swelling lymph nodes, vasculitic-like skin lesions, and positivity of Bartonella serology initially considered as expression of a disimmune disease. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-08-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3423660/ /pubmed/22924138 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/354625 Text en Copyright © 2012 Amelia Spinella et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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