Bartonella infections in cats and dogs including zoonotic aspects

A Álvarez-Fernández, EB Breitschwerdt… - Parasites & vectors, 2018 - Springer
Bartonellosis is a vector-borne zoonotic disease with worldwide distribution that can infect
humans and a large number of mammals including small companion animals (cats and …

Bartonellosis: an emerging infectious disease of zoonotic importance to animals and human beings

EB Breitschwerdt, RG Maggi… - Journal of veterinary …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Objective–To provide a review of clinically relevant observations related to Bartonella
species as emerging pathogens in veterinary and human medicine. Data Sources …

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 …

Prevalence of Bartonella spp. by culture, PCR and serology, in veterinary personnel from Spain

JA Oteo, R Maggi, A Portillo, J Bradley… - Parasites & vectors, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background The genus Bartonella includes fastidious, facultative intracellular
bacteria mainly transmitted by arthropods and distributed among mammalian reservoirs …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Bartonella spp. bacteremia and rheumatic symptoms in patients from Lyme disease–endemic region

RG Maggi, BR Mozayeni, EL Pultorak… - Emerging infectious …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Bartonella spp. infection has been reported in association with an expanding spectrum of
symptoms and lesions. Among 296 patients examined by a rheumatologist, prevalence of …

Molecular Prevalence of Bartonella, Babesia, and Hemotropic Mycoplasma sp. in Dogs with Splenic Disease

M Varanat, RG Maggi, KE Linder… - Journal of Veterinary …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Background Among diseases that cause splenomegaly in dogs, lymphoid nodular
hyperplasia (LNH), splenic hemangiosarcoma (HSA), and fibrohistiocytic nodules (FHN) are …

Bartonella vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii and Bartonella henselae bacteremia in a father and daughter with neurological disease

EB Breitschwerdt, RG Maggi, PM Lantos, CW Woods… - Parasites & …, 2010 - Springer
Background Bartonella vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii is an important, emerging, intravascular
bacterial pathogen that has been recently isolated from immunocompetent patients with …

Koch's postulates and the pathogenesis of comparative infectious disease causation associated with Bartonella species

EB Breitschwerdt, KL Linder, MJ Day, RG Maggi… - Journal of comparative …, 2013 - Elsevier
In his homage to Lucretius ('Georgica'), Vergil is credited with stating:'Felix qui potuit rerum
cognoscere causas'('Fortunate is he who knows the causes of things'). Based on numerous …

Bartonella species bacteremia in two patients with epithelioid hemangioendothelioma

PE Mascarelli, JR Iredell, RG Maggi… - Journal of clinical …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bartonella henselae and B. koehlerae bacteremia was documented in two epithelioid
hemangioendothelioma patients and B. koehlerae bacteremia in an asymptomatic partner of …