"Cat-Scratch Disease" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A self-limiting bacterial infection of the regional lymph nodes caused by AFIPIA felis, a gram-negative bacterium recently identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and by BARTONELLA HENSELAE. It usually arises one or more weeks following a feline scratch, with raised inflammatory nodules at the site of the scratch being the primary symptom.
| Descriptor ID |
D002372
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C01.252.400.126.100.150 C01.252.400.200 C15.604.315.249
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| Concept/Terms |
Cat-Scratch Disease- Cat-Scratch Disease
- Cat Scratch Disease
- Disease, Cat-Scratch
- Cat Scratch Fever
- Cat Scratch Fevers
- Fever, Cat Scratch
- Inoculative Lymphoreticulosis
- Inoculative Lymphoreticuloses
- Lymphoreticuloses, Inoculative
- Lymphoreticulosis, Inoculative
- Catscratch Disease
- Disease, Catscratch
- Bartonella henselae Infection
- Bartonella henselae Infections
- Infection, Bartonella henselae
- Inoculation Lymphoreticulosis
- Inoculation Lymphoreticuloses
- Lymphoreticuloses, Inoculation
- Lymphoreticulosis, Inoculation
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Cat-Scratch Disease" by people in Profiles.
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Disseminated Cat Scratch Disease in Pediatric Patients in Hawai'i. Hawaii J Health Soc Welf. 2020 05 01; 79(5 Suppl 1):64-70.
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Disseminated cat-scratch disease presenting as nausea, diarrhea, and weight loss without fever in a heart transplant recipient. Transpl Infect Dis. 2017 Jun; 19(3).
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Bartonella henselae infection of prosthetic aortic valve associated with colitis. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2011 Nov; 11(11):1503-5.
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What's eating you? Cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis), Part 1: Clinical features and role as a disease vector. Cutis. 2010 May; 85(5):231-6.
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Characterization of an immunogenic outer membrane autotransporter protein, Arp, of Bartonella henselae. Infect Immun. 2007 Nov; 75(11):5255-63.
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The Bartonella henselae sucB gene encodes a dihydrolipoamide succinyltransferase protein reactive with sera from patients with cat-scratch disease. J Med Microbiol. 2004 Dec; 53(Pt 12):1221-1227.
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Transverse myelitis associated with probable cat-scratch disease in a previously healthy pediatric patient. Clin Infect Dis. 2000 Aug; 31(2):609-11.
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Immunologic response to Bartonella henselae as determined by enzyme immunoassay and Western blot analysis. Am J Clin Pathol. 1997 Aug; 108(2):202-9.
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Rapid polymerase chain reaction-based detection of the causative agent of cat scratch disease (Bartonella henselae) in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded samples. Hum Pathol. 1997 Jul; 28(7):820-6.
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Systemic cat-scratch disease presenting as leukocytoclastic vasculitis. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 1996 Jan; 15(1):93-5.