First isolation of Bartonella henselae type I from a cat-scratch disease patient in Japan and its molecular analysis |
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Authors: | Maruyama Soichi Izumikawa Koichi Miyashita Mayumi Kabeya Hidenori Mikami Takeshi Yamanouchi Hirotsugu Sasaki Eisuke Yoshida Hiroshi Izumikawa Kinichi |
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Affiliation: | Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health, Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Kanagawa, Japan. maruyama@brs.nihon-u.ac.jp |
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Abstract: | We isolated Bartonella henselae from an inguinal lymph node of a 36-year-old male patient with cat-scratch disease. The patient had many areas of erythema on his body, swelling of the left inguinal lymph nodes with pain and slight fever. The diagnosis was made on the basis of polymerase chain reaction for B. henselae DNA from the lymph node biopsies and blood sample, and isolation of the organism, histology of the lymph node and serology with an indirect immunofluorescent antibody test. We also analyzed the genome profiles for five strains of 90 isolates from the lymph node by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis after Not I endonuclease digestion. We found two different genomic profiles. These results suggest that the patient had been either co-infected or re-infected with two genetically different strains of B. henselae. |
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Keywords: | bartonella henselae cat‐scratch disease isolation pulsed‐field gel electrophoresis |
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