Diseases

Bartonella Infections

Infections by the genus BARTONELLA. Bartonella bacilliformis can cause acute febrile anemia, designated Oroya fever, and a benign skin eruption, called verruga peruana. BARTONELLA QUINTANA causes TRENCH FEVER, while BARTONELLA HENSELAE is the etiologic agent of bacillary angiomatosis (ANGIOMATOSIS, BACILLARY) and is also one of the causes of CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE.

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Infections by the genus BARTONELLA. Bartonella bacilliformis can cause acute febrile anemia, designated Oroya fever, and a benign skin eruption, called verruga peruana. BARTONELLA QUINTANA causes TRENCH FEVER, while BARTONELLA HENSELAE is the etiologic agent of bacillary angiomatosis (ANGIOMATOSIS, BACILLARY) and is also one of the causes of CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE.

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  • Bartonellosis
  • Infections, Bartonella
  • Infections, Rochalimaea
  • Rochalimaea Infections
  • Bartonella Infection
  • Bartonelloses
  • Infection, Bartonella
  • Infection, Rochalimaea
  • Rochalimaea Infection
  • Bartonella bacilliformis Infection
  • Carrion Disease
  • Carrion's Disease
  • Oroya Fever
  • Verruga Peruana
  • Bartonella bacilliformis Infections
  • Disease, Carrion
  • Disease, Carrion's
  • Fever, Oroya
  • Infection, Bartonella bacilliformis

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.

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ROCHALIMAEA INFECTIONS was heading 1995

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  1. C01w.150.252w.400w.126.100w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Bartonella Infections. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001474. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001474
  2. Bartonella Infections. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartonellosis
  3. Bartonella Infections. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q809561