Antibiotic Therapy for Cat-scratch Disease?Examines the effectiveness of antibiotic therapy for cat-scratch disease. Presentation of systemic symptoms; Extensiveness of hepatic involvement; Indications that gentamicin may be an efficacious treatment to shorten the course of cat-scratch disease....
Cat scratch diseasePediatricsTrimethoprim/sulfamethoxazoleBackgroundAppropriate antibiotic treatment of cat scratch disease (CSD) in pediatrics is not well established.ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the response rates of antibiotic therapy in pediatrics with CSD.MethodsThe electronic ...
Antibiotic therapy can be considered for patients with severe cat scratch disease. Conservative, symptomatic treatment is recommended for the majority of patients with mild or moderate CSD. 展开 关键词: Keywords Cat-scratch disease antibiotics therapeutic outcome ...
Cat-Scratch Fever and Lymphadenopathy in a Rheumatoid Arthritis Patient on TocilizumabWe present the case of a 13-year-old immunosuppressed patient with unrelenting cat scratch disease despite 9 months of antibiotic therapy. The patient was being treated with mycophenolate and prednisone for membrano...
We present the case of a 13-year-old immunosuppressed patient with unrelenting cat scratch disease despite 9 months of antibiotic therapy. The patient was being treated with mycophenolate and prednisone for membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (type 1) diagnosed 13 months before the onset of cat ...
(EBV) were negative. A bone scan was unremarkable. Abdominal ultrasound revealed multiple small hypoechoic lesions in the spleen and retroperitoneal adenopathy. After 3 days of intravenous rifampin therapy, his temperature declined to <101° F (<38.3° C). The child had sustained a scratch from ...
Thus, cat scratch disease (CSD), a very common type of zoonosis, was suspected.After further confirmation of the circumstances, the antibiotic therapy was changed to minocycline (Minomycin®, Wyeth Lederie Japan, Japan) and a PCR assay of the pus obtained from the swelling showed the ...
Ectoparasites, such as fleas and ticks, are not only a nuisance to your pet, but can transmit vector-borne diseases to humans and pets such as Bartonella (cat scratch disease, transmitted by fleas); Lyme, Anaplasmosis, Ehrlichia, and Rocky Mountain Spotted fever. Fleas can also cause a ...
Cat-scratch disease is a self-limited zoonotic disease characterized by regional lymphadenopathy and fever. It is caused by Bartonella henselae, less frequ... MH Kim,Kim, Baek-Nam,TH Han - 《Infection & Chemotherapy》 被引量: 4发表: 2012年 Antibiotic therapy for cat-scratch disease: clinical...
psittaci, Bartonella henselae (the cat scratch agent), Microsporum canis, Giardia, Cyptosporidia, and Coccidia are all infectious agents that are far more severe in catteries, shelters and large multiple cat households than among free-roaming cats or in experimentally infected laboratory cats. ...