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Correction: Competence of Cimex lectularius Bed Bugs for the Transmission of Bartonella quintana, the Agent of Trench Fever. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015 International audienceBartonella quintana, the etiologic agent of trench fever and other human diseases, is transmitted by the feces of body lice. Recently, this bacterium has been detected in other arthropod families such as bed bugs, which begs the ...
Hamza Leulmi +7 more
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Acta Medica LeopoliensiaTrench fever is a bartonellosis disease with a transmissible mechanism transmitted via a specific vector - the human body louse (Pediculus humanus), manifested by a sudden onset, relapsing fever, severe pain in the calf muscles, and abundant ...
Nataliya Vynograd +6 more
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Journal of the American Medical Association, 1917 During the past few months it has been my good fortune to observe several hundred cases of this extremely prevalent, carefully studied, but yet undetermined infection, known as trench fever. The name is really a misnomer. At first it was considered a result of trench life, and traumatic periostitis of the tibiae was thought to be the underlying ...
H. Moreland McCrea +1 more
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The Trw type IV secretion system of Bartonella mediates host-specific adhesion to erythrocytes. [PDF]
PLoS Pathogens, 2010 Bacterial pathogens typically infect only a limited range of hosts; however, the genetic mechanisms governing host-specificity are poorly understood.
Muriel Vayssier-Taussat +16 more
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From trench fever to endocarditis. [PDF]
Postgrad Med J, 2003 Abstract The case of a 44 year old woman with infective endocarditis due to Bartonella quintana, an organism long recognised to cause a condition known as trench fever, is reported. This case illustrates the lengthy differential diagnosis of “culture negative” endocarditis.
Mann P +4 more
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ZOONOTIC BARTONELLOSIS: IS IT THRERATING TO THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES? [PDF]
Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, 2023 Bartonellosis is a group of emerging and re-emerging bacteria of Bartonella genus with worldwidedistribution. Bartonella species cause diseases such as Carrión's disease, trench fever, catscratch disease, bacillary angiomatosis, peliosis hepatis, chronic
TOSSON MORSY +3 more
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Combination antibiotic therapy is required to eliminate Bartonella henselae in multiple microenvironments [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyBartonella are gram-negative, facultative intracellular bacteria. Infection by Bartonella manifests as different clinical syndromes collectively known as bartonellosis.
Emily L. Olsen, Monica E. Embers
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