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Is Bartonella a Cause of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis? A Case Study
Gastrointestinal Disorders, 2020 The etiology of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is unknown. I present a case which may be indicative of a causal link between Bartonella infection and PSC. The patient presented with complaints of abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea.
Daniel A. Kinderlehrer
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The first reported case of Bartonella endocarditis in Thailand
Infectious Disease Reports, 2011 Bartonella species have been shown to cause acute, undifferentiated fever in Thailand. A study to identify causes of endocarditis that were blood culture-negative using routine methods led to the first reported case in Thailand of Bartonella endocarditis
Orathai Pachirat +9 more
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Bats are key hosts in the radiation of mammal-associated Bartonella bacteria
bioRxiv, 2020 Bats are notorious reservoirs of several zoonotic diseases and may be uniquely tolerant of infection among mammals. Broad sampling has revealed the importance of bats in the diversification and spread of viruses and eukaryotes to other animal hosts ...
Clifton D. McKee +3 more
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Emerging and Re-Emerging Zoonoses of Dogs and Cats. [PDF]
, 2014 Since the middle of the 20th century, pets are more frequently considered as "family members" within households. However, cats and dogs still can be a source of human infection by various zoonotic pathogens.
Chomel, Bruno B
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Molecular Detection of Bartonella spp. in China and St. Kitts
Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2019 Bartonella are vector-borne hemotropic bacteria that infect a wide variety of hosts, including people. While there are PCR assays that can identify individual or groups of Bartonella, there is no reliable molecular method to simultaneously detect all ...
Ke Huang +6 more
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International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 2020 The genus Bartonella (Family: Bartonellaceae; Order: Rhizobiales; Class: Alphaproteobacteria) comprises facultative intracellular Gram-negative, haemotropic, slow-growing, vector-borne bacteria.
R. Gutiérrez +6 more
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SEAL LOUSE (ECHINOPHTHIRIDAE) AS VECTORS FOR INVASIVE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE AGENTS OF PINNIPEDS
Юг России: экология, развитие, 2017 The aim of the presented article is to analyze seal lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura, Echinophthiridae) adaptation to aquatic environment – permanent parasites of pinnipeds, as well as available literature data about seal lice as pathogen vectors of their ...
Mikhail Yu. Shchelkanov +7 more
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The Bartonella autotransporter BafA activates the host VEGF pathway to drive angiogenesis
Nature Communications, 2020 Pathogenic bacteria of the genus Bartonella can induce vasoproliferative lesions during infection. The underlying mechanisms are unclear, but involve secretion of an unidentified mitogenic factor.
Kentaro Tsukamoto +11 more
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Bartonella clarridgeiae infection in a patient with aortic root abscess and endocarditis [PDF]
, 2019 Introduction. Bartonella species are increasingly recognized as agents of culture-negative endocarditis. However, to date, almost all human cases have been associated with two members of the genus, Bartonella henselae and Bartonella quintana. B. henselae
Birtles, RJ +4 more
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Treponema pallidum (syphilis) antigen TpF1 induces angiogenesis through the activation of the IL-8 pathway [PDF]
, 2016 open15Over 10 million people every year become infected by Treponema pallidum and develop syphilis, a disease with broad symptomatology that, due to the difficulty to eradicate the pathogen from the highly vascularized secondary sites of infection, is ...
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