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Accession number;99A0447124
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| Title;Three Children with Systemic Cat Scratch Disease. |
| Author;
MURANO ICHIRO
(Yamaguchi Central Hosp.)
YOSHII HIDEKI
(Yamaguchi Central Hosp.)
SUGIO YOKO
(Yamaguchi Central Hosp.)
UCHIDA MASASHI
(Tokuyama Cent. Hosp.)
SHINOHARA TERUO
(Tokuyama Cent. Hosp.)
TSUNEOKA HIDEHIRO
(Yamaguchiken Koseiren Nagato Gen. Hosp.)
YAMAMOTO KIYOMI
(The Sch. of Allied Health Sei., Yamaguchi Univ.)
IINO HIDECHIKA
(The Sch. of Allied Health Sei., Yamaguchi Univ.)
TSUKAHARA MASATO
(The Sch. of Allied Health Sei., Yamaguchi Univ.)
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Journal Title;Journal of the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases
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Journal Code:Z0760A
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ISSN:0387-5911
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VOL.73;NO.3;PAGE.248-252(1999)
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| Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.4, REF.13 |
| Pub. Country;Japan |
| Language;Japanese |
| Abstract;Three girls with systemic cat scratch disease, aged 10,13 and 9 years, were reported. They presented a prolonged fever and back pain in the early stage of the disease, and had no regional lymphadenopathy. Two of them had hepatosplenic granulomas, one with multiple 5mm hypoechoic lesions in the liver and spleen, and the other with a single 2.5cm hypodenese lesion in the left hepatic lobe. The latter patient underwent a partial left hepatic lobectomy. All patients ahad elevated titers of antibodies to Bartonella henselae. Polymerase chain reaction detected B. henselae DNA in tissue specimens of the patient who under went a hepatic lobectomy. Cat scratch disease should be recognized as a cause of fever of unknown origin because the prevalence of b henselae infection might behigher in Japan. (author abst.) |
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