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SUBMITTER: Kordick DL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC229848 | biostudies-other | 1997 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Kordick D L DL Hilyard E J EJ Hadfield T L TL Wilson K H KH Steigerwalt A G AG Brenner D J DJ Breitschwerdt E B EB
Journal of clinical microbiology 19970701 7
Shortly after adopting a 6-week-old cat, a veterinarian was bitten on the left index finger. Within 3 weeks, he developed headache, fever, and left axillary lymphadenopathy. Initial blood cultures from the cat and veterinarian were sterile. Repeat cultures from the cat grew Bartonella-like organisms with lophotrichous flagella. Sera from the veterinarian were not reactive against Bartonella henselae, B. quintana, or B. elizabethae antigens but were seroreactive (reciprocal titer, 1,024) against ...[more]