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Bartonella spp. bacteremia in patients with neurological and neuro-
cognitive dysfunction.Breitschwerdt EB, Maggi RG, Nicholson WL,
Cherry NA, Woods CW.
From the Intracellular Pathogens Research Laboratory, Center for
Comparative Medicine and Translational Research, College of
Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC;
Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, Atlanta, GA; and Duke University Medical Center, Durham,
NC.
We detected infection with a Bartonella species (B. henselae or B.
vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii) in the blood of six immunocompetent
patients who presented with a chronic neurological or neuro-
cognitive syndrome including seizure, ataxia, memory loss, and/or
tremor. Each of these patients had substantial animal contact or
recent arthropod exposure as a potential risk factor for Bartonella
infection. Additional studies should be performed to clarify the
potential role of Bartonella spp. as a cause of chronic neurological
and neuro-cognitive dysfunction.
PMID: 18632903 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
