TY - JOUR AU - Angelakis, Emmanouil AU - Edouard, Sophie AU - La Scola, Bernard AU - Raoult, Didier T1 - Bartonella henselae in Skin Biopsy Specimens of Patients with Cat-Scratch Disease T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2010 VL - 16 IS - 12 SP - 1963 SN - 1080-6059 AB - During the past 2 years, we identified live Bartonella henselae in the primary inoculation sites of 3 patients after a cat scratch. Although our data are preliminary, we report that a cutaneous swab of the skin lesion from a patient in the early stage of cat-scratch disease can be useful for diagnosis of the infection. KW - Bartonella henselae KW - skin biopsy KW - cat-scratch disease KW - zoonoses KW - bacteria KW - France KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1612.100647 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/12/10-0647_article ER - End of Reference