The so-called "Oroya fever" is an extremely severe infectious disease, yet it is classified among the so-called neglected ...

My daughter has struggled with a Bartonella infection for nine years, so I feel compelled to challenge the “ignorance is bliss” message Elizabeth Licorish delivered in "Please don't freak out about ...

The bacterial pathogen Bartonella bacilliformis causes in South America one of the most dangerous infectious diseases known: the so-called “Oroya fever.” Without antibiotic treatment, 90 percent of ...

What Is Cat Scratch Fever? Cat scratch fever or cat scratch disease is an infection caused by the bacteria Bartonella henselae. You usually get this disease when an infected cat licks an open wound on ...

Bartonella are a group of vector-borne bacteria transmitted primarily via arthropods like fleas, lice and potentially ticks, but also by the animals that harbor them. Of the (at least) 45 currently ...

In a new case study, researchers from North Carolina State University found that a family suffering from illnesses that included neurological symptoms were co-infected with both several Bartonella ...

What Are the Causes of Bartonellosis? Bartonella bacteria are parasites that invade your red blood cells, immune cells like macrophages, and endothelial cells lining your blood vessels. Bartonella ...

Researchers have found a very high prevalence of Bartonella bacteria in tumors and tissues - but not blood samples - taken from dogs with hemangiosarcoma, a cancer of the blood vessels. Researchers ...

Researchers have produced the first link between a species of bacteria most commonly found in sheep and human illness. Researchers at North Carolina State University and the Centers for Disease ...

I thought I would pass this on direct from North Carolina State University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Evidence of human infection with a species of bacteria most commonly ...

We describe an immunocompromised renal transplantation patient with opportunistic lung infection due to Bartonella henselae (formerly Rochalimaea henselae) and provide evidence suggesting transmission ...