Search results for "Bartonella"

Monitoring of ticks and tick-borne pathogens through a nationwide research station network in Finland.

2020

In 2015 a long-term, nationwide tick and tick-borne pathogen (TBP) monitoring project was started by the Finnish Tick Project and the Finnish Research Station network (RESTAT), with the goal of producing temporally and geographically extensive data regarding exophilic ticks in Finland. In the current study, we present results from the first four years of this collaboration. Ticks were collected by cloth dragging from 11 research stations across Finland in May September 2015-2018 (2012-2018 in Seili). Collected ticks were screened for twelve different pathogens by qPCR: Borrelia afzelii, Borrelia garinii, Borrelia valaisiana, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, Borrelia miyamotoi, Babesia sp…

Bartonella henselae, a widespread, silent infectious agent: serum antibodies prevalente in Western Sicily.

2011

Isolation and characterization of Bartonella quintana from parotid gland of an immunocompetent man.

2009

We describe a case of the isolation of Bartonella quintana from the parotid gland of an apparently healthy man. Pathological examination showed intraparotid granulomatous abscessual lymphadenitis. Diagnosis was made on the basis of high titers of immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgM antibodies and of culture isolation of a causative agent from parotid aspirate.

Serological and Molecular Evidence of Bartonella henselae in Stray Cats from Southern Italy

2021

Bartonella henselae is a slow growing and facultative intracellular pathogen mainly transmitted by arthropod vectors adapted to domestic and wild mammalian reservoir hosts. Since cats are the major source of the B. henselae infection, this study aimed to evaluate the seroprevalence and the DNA presence in randomly sampled stray cats. Blood samples of 429 cats were collected from shelter of Palermo (Southern Italy) and sera and whole blood were analyzed for the presence of antibodies against B. henselae by indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) and by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), respectively. Two hundred and three sera (47.3%) were positive to IFA and 148 blood samples (34.5%…

Hepatosplenic cat-scratch fever with seropositivity for Bartonella quintana?

2008

Bacteria of the Genus Roseobacter Associated with the Toxic Dinoflagellate Prorocentrum lima

1998

The dinoflagellate Prorocentrum lima is known to produce diarrhetic shellfish poisons. However, it is yet unclear if the dinoflagellates themselves or the bacteria associated with them produce the toxins. Here we analyze the toxicity as well as the spectrum of bacteria in two cultures of P. lima, namely P. lima-SY and P. lima-ST, which initially derived from the same P. lima strain PL2V. Toxicity tests, applying the Artemia bioassay revealed in both cultures high levels of toxins. The bacteria, associated with the two cultures, were identified by PCR/nucleotide sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA gene. From cultures of P. lima-SY the dominant sequence was found to share a 93.7% similarity wit…

Prevalence of antibodies anti-bartonella henselae in western sicily: children, blood donors, and cats.

2012

Eye and cat scratch disease: A case series

2016

Resume Introduction La maladie des griffes du chat est une affection polymorphe, pouvant se manifester par des atteintes ophtalmologiques isolees. Nous rapportons les observations cliniques de sept cas, ayant presente une atteinte ophtalmologique posterieure de la maladie des griffes du chat. Observations Notre population comprenait sept patients, dont cinq femmes, d’âge median de 52 ans, avec une atteinte unilaterale dans trois cas. Une neuroretinite stellaire de Leber etait retrouvee chez six patients, un syndrome incomplet dans deux cas (soit un œdeme papillaire isole, soit un œdeme maculaire trainant) et associe a des foyers chorioretiniens dans un cas. Des foyers retiniens isoles ont e…

Prevalence of antibodies anti-bartonella henselae in western Sicily: children, blood donors, cats

2011

Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato detected in the blood of Norwegian patients with erythema migrans

2017

The most common tick-borne human disease in Norway is Lyme borreliosis. Ticks in Norway also harbour less known disease-causing agents such as Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis, Borrelia miyamotoi and Rickettsia helvetica. However, human infections caused by these pathogens have never been described in Norway. The main aims of the study were to evaluate the contribution of several tick-borne bacterial agents, other than Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, to zoonotic diseases in Norway and to determine their clinical pictures. Blood samples from 70 symptomatic tick-bitten adults from the Agder counties in southern Norway were screened for seven tick-borne pathogens by using a commercial multi…