Will the real agent of cat-scratch disease please stand up?

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue , 1996, Pages 707-725

  Jerris, Robert C ^a   Regnery, Russell L ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Afipia; Bartonella; Cat scratch; diagnosis; Rochalimaea

Indexed keywords

AFIPIA; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLACEAE; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; HISTORY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ADULT; ANGIOMATOSIS, BACILLARY; ANIMALS; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE; CATS; CHILD; HUMANS; TERMINOLOGY;

AFIPIA; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLACEAE; CHLAMYDIAE; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0029843193     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.50.1.707     Document Type: Review

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