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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2018

Bartonella henselae DNA in Seronegative Patients with Cat-Scratch Disease.

Masashi Yanagihara, Hidehiro Tsuneoka, Ayano Tanimoto, Ken-Ichiro Otsuyama, Jun Nishikawa, Tomohiro Matsui, Junzo Nojima, Kiyoshi Ichihara

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Clinical and epidemiological features of cat-scratch disease: a 16-year case retrospective study in a portuguese tertiary care centre.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2026
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  6. Exploring the Zoonotic Risk ofTransboundary and emerging diseases · 2025
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  7. A Man in His Forties with Recurrent Cat-Scratch Disease.Case reports in infectious diseases · 2024
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  8. Limitations of Serological Diagnosis of Typical Cat Scratch Disease and Recommendations for the Diagnostic Procedure.The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2023
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  11. Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  12. Metagenomic next-generation sequencing may assist diagnosis of cat-scratch disease.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022
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  13. Comparison of Serological and Molecular Assays forPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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  14. Schizophrenia andVector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) · 2021
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  15. Hepatosplenic abscesses in an immunocompetent child with cat-scratch disease from Peru.Annals of clinical microbiology and antimicrobials · 2019
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  17. Access microbiology · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Masashi Yanagihara
Hidehiro Tsuneoka
Ayano Tanimoto
Ken-Ichiro Otsuyama
Jun Nishikawa
Tomohiro Matsui
Junzo Nojima
Kiyoshi Ichihara

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We used real-time PCR to detect Bartonella henselae DNA in 7.9% (5/63) of blood specimens from seronegative patients in Japan suspected of having cat-scratch disease. The combined use of serologic tests and real-time PCR to analyze blood specimens is recommended for the prompt, noninvasive laboratory diagnosis of cat-scratch disease.

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AdolescentAdultAntibodies, BacterialBartonella henselaeCat-Scratch DiseaseChildChild, PreschoolDNA, BacterialFemaleHumansJapanMaleMiddle AgedSerologic TestsAntibodies, BacterialDNA, BacterialbacteriaBartonella henselaeCat-scratch diseaseindirect fluorescence antibody assayJapanperipheral bloodreal-time PCRzoonoses

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PMID29664374
PMCPMC5938771

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