Pestilence, persistence and pathogenicity: infection strategies of Bartonella

MF Minnick, JM Battisti - Future Microbiology, 2009 - Future Medicine
It has been nearly two decades since the discovery of Bartonella as an agent of bacillary
angiomatosis in AIDS patients and persistent bacteremia and 'nonculturable'endocarditis in …

Insights in Bartonella Host Specificity

M Vayssier‐Taussat, D Le Rhun… - Annals of the New …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The genus Bartonella comprises a unique group of emerging gram‐negative, intracellular
bacteria that can cause a long‐lasting intraerythrocytic bacteremia in their reservoir hosts. In …

Bartonella–host-cell interactions and vascular tumour formation

C Dehio - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2005 - nature.com
Bartonellae are arthropod-borne bacterial pathogens that typically cause persistent infection
of erythrocytes and endothelial cells in their mammalian hosts. In human infection, these …

Bartonella

MF Minnick, BE Anderson - Molecular medical microbiology, 2015 - Elsevier
The Bartonella genus has grown from a single member in the early 1990s (ie, Bartonella
bacilliformis), to 31 validated species at this writing. Eleven species are considered to be …

Bartonellosis: one health perspectives for an emerging infectious disease

EB Breitschwerdt - ILAR journal, 2014 - academic.oup.com
In recent years, an increasing number of Bartonella species have been identified as
zoonotic pathogens, transmitted by animal bites, scratches, arthropods and even by needle …

Ecological associations between bacteria of the genus Bartonella and mammals

MY Kosoy - Biology Bulletin, 2010 - Springer
Bacteria of the genus Bartonella are facultative intracellular parasites associated with
erythrocytes and endothelial cells of mammals. It has become increasingly obvious that …

Bartonella infection in animals: carriership, reservoir potential, pathogenicity, and zoonotic potential for human infection

EB Breitschwerdt, DL Kordick - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2000 - Am Soc Microbiol
Recent observations have begun to support a role for Bartonella spp. as animal as well as
human pathogens. Bartonella spp. are vector-transmitted, blood-borne, intracellular, gram …

Persistence of Bartonella spp. stealth pathogens: from subclinical infections to vasoproliferative tumor formation

AT Pulliainen, C Dehio - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Bartonella spp. are facultative intracellular bacteria that typically cause a long-lasting
intraerythrocytic bacteremia in their mammalian reservoir hosts, thereby favoring …

Bartonellae as elegant hemotropic parasites

RJ Birtles - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Bartonella species are hemotropic bacterial parasites of a wide range of mammals that
occasionally cause disease in humans. The low prevalence of clinical manifestations …

Molecular and Cellular Basis of Bartonella Pathogenesis

C Dehio - Annu. Rev. Microbiol., 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The genus Bartonella comprises several important human pathogens that cause a
wide range of clinical manifestations: cat-scratch disease, trench fever, Carrión's disease …