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Improved culture from lymph nodes of patients with cat scratch disease and genotypic characterization of Bartonella henselae isolates in Australia.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Oct 2002
Fournier Pierre-Edouard, Robson Jenny, Zeaiter Zaher, McDougall Rodney, Byrne Shane, Raoult Didier
Abstract excerpt
Over a 4-year period we detected Bartonella henselae isolates in 104 of 297 specimens (35.1%) from Australian patients clinically suspected of having cat scratch disease by amplification of a fragment of the htrA gene. We isolated 17 B. henselae strains (20.5%) from the 83 PCR-positive human specimens available for culture. Our culture method was based on prolonged incubation in a moist atmosphere of blood agar...
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