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Bartonella quintana

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Bartonella quintana
Rochalimaea quintana Infectious disease A slender, fastidious coccobacillary bacterium found in the normal flora of small rodents transmitted by body lice, which causes trench fever, bacillary splenitis, bacteremia, endocarditis, cat-scratch disease, and cutaneous bacillary angiomatosis, relapsing fever, chronic lymphadenopathy in alcoholics, and in the homeless Management Empirical–nafcillin, ceftriaxone etc. See Trench fever.
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Bartonella quintana is a bacterium transmitted through body lice feces that are scratched into the skin by the host.
Bartonella quintana in body lice and head lice from homeless persons, ... by Bonilla, Denise L.; Kabeya, Hidenori; Henn, Jennifer; Kramer, Vicki L.; Kosoy, Michael Y. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
IgG cross-reactivity can occur between B henselae and Bartonella quintana because these tests use whole bacteria or bacterial lysates as an antigen.
Neck abscess secondary to cat-scratch disease by Eisenbeis, John F. / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
Louse-borne borreliosis had been ruled out by a negative blood smear, and results of serologic testing and molecular screening of lice for the other 2 louse-transmitted bacteria, Rickettsia prowazekii and Bartonella quintana (1), were negative.
Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica bacteremia in homeless woman by Rebaudet, Stanislas; Genot, Severine; Renvoise, Aurelie; Fournier, Pierre-Edouard; Stein, Andreas / Emerging Infectious Diseases
 
 
 
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