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Cat-scratch encephalopathy
S W Wheeler1, S M Wolf, E A Steinberg
1Department of Neurology, Kaiser Foundation Hospital, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Neurology
|September 26, 1997
Abstract:
We present a case of cat-scratch disease in a 9-year-old girl, complicated by encephalopathy and seizures. Bartonella (formerly Rochalimaea) henselae is the causative agent in cat-scratch disease; methods now available for detection of this pleomorphic, gram-negative bacterium, including polymerase chain reaction amplification and indirect fluorescence antibody testing, may lead to changes in standard criteria used to verify a diagnosis of cat-scratch disease.