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Bartonella henselae in skin biopsy specimens of patients with cat-scratch disease
Emmanouil Angelakis1, Sophie Edouard, Bernard La Scola
1Université de Méditerranée, Marseille, France.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|December 3, 2010
Abstract:
During the past 2 years, we identified live Bartonella henselae in the primary inoculation sites of 3 patients after a cat scratch. Although our data are preliminary, we report that a cutaneous swab of the skin lesion from a patient in the early stage of cat-scratch disease can be useful for diagnosis of the infection.

