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Volume 337:1915-1917 December 25, 1997 Number 26
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Of Cats, Humans, and Bartonella

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Bacillary angiomatosis and bacillary peliosis are new opportunistic infections that were first recognized at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. They are caused by Bartonella henselae and B. quintana, tiny gram-negative bacilli that are difficult to cultivate in the laboratory.1,2 These diseases are characterized by angioproliferative lesions that resemble those of Kaposi's sarcoma (shown in the Image in Clinical Medicine elsewhere in this issue3) in the skin, bone, and many other organs (where the condition is known as bacillary angiomatosis) or the liver and spleen (where it is called peliosis hepatis). At about the same time, the mysterious agent . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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