Prevalence of Bartonella henselae bacteremia, the causative agent of cat scratch disease, in an Australian cat population

Pathology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 262-265

  Branley, James ^a,b   Wolfson, Candice ^a   Waters, Paul ^a   Gottlieb, Thomas ^a   Bradbury, Ross ^a  

^a Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bartonella; Cat scratch disease; Cats

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTEREMIA; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BLOOD CULTURE; CAT; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0030425265     PISSN: 00313025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00313029600169124     Document Type: Article

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