[Cat-scratch disease].

Lin Chuang Er Bi Yan Hou Ke Za Zhi

Department of Otolaryngology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanfang Medical University, Guangzhou, 510282, China.

Published: September 2005

Objective: To study the etiology, epidemiology, clinical and pathological features, diagnose and treatment of cat-scratch disease(CSD).

Method: The clinical information of 1 case was reported and the literatures were also reviewed.

Result: Bartonella henselae was the primary pathogen of CSD. Almost all patients with CSD were in contact with animals, especially cat or dog before the occurrence of the disease. All the patients had the self-limited swelling of local lymph nodes and commonly a fever. The pathological feature was necrotic granulation-like micro abscessation, and a pleomorphous argyrophil G- bacillus could be showed by Warthin-Starry or Brown-Hopp stainings in the swelling lymph nodes.

Conclusion: CSD is a self-limited bacterial infectious disease. And its clinical features,biopsy and special stainings of swelling lymph nodes are helpful to the final diagnosis. Gentamicin, rifadin, ciprofloxacin, clarithromycin, bactrim, mitramycin, or resection of swelling lymph nodes had good effects on treating CSD.

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